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Island of the Blue Dolphins
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- Summary
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The gripping story of young Karana, an Indian girl who survives by herself for eighteen years on a deserted island off the California coast. A quiet acceptance of fate characterizes her ordeal.
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- Creator
- Scott O'Dell
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1960
- Physical Details
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- 184 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 0395069629, 9780395069622, 9780440940005, 0440940001, 0395618282, 9780395618288
- OCLC
- ocm00225474
- Inspired by the life of the "Lone Woman of San Nicolas" whose remains were baptized conditionally in 1853 by Father Gonzales Rubio as Juana Maria.
Subjects
- Juana Marie, -1853 -- Juvenile fiction.
- Indians of North America -- California -- Channel Islands -- Juvenile fiction.
- Islands -- Juvenile fiction.
- Wilderness survival -- Juvenile fiction.
- Young women -- California -- Channel Islands -- Juvenile fiction.
- Indians of North America -- California -- Channel Islands -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- San Nicolas Island (Calif.) -- Juvenile fiction.
- Channel Islands (Calif.) -- Juvenile fiction.