The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes the wind, water, and trees.

Anyone who has ever been scared of leaving their family will love this book' (from the review, which named Orphan Island a best book of 2017). In the tradition of modern-day classics like Sara Pennypackers Pax and Lois Lowrys The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about nine children who live on a mysterious island. 'A unique and compelling story about nine children who live with no adults on a mysterious island. Jinny knows her responsibility now-to teach Ess everything she needs to know about the island, to keep things as they've always been.īut will she be ready for the inevitable day when the boat will come back-and take her away forever from the only home she's known? The boat arrives, taking away Jinny's best friend, Deen, replacing him with a new little girl named Ess, and leaving Jinny as the new Elder. Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder by HarperCollins Children's Books - Issuu For readers who loved Sara Pennypacker's Pax and Lois Lowry's The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts.Īnd only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to join them-and taking the eldest one away, never to be seen again. In the tradition of modern-day classics like Sara Pennypacker's Pax and Lois Lowry's The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about nine children who live on a mysterious island. Thought-provoking and magical.' -Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series Laurel Snyder is a poet, essayist, and author of picture books and novels for children, including The Longest Night, Bigger than a Bread Box.

'This is one of those books that haunts you long after you read it. 'A wondrous book, wise and wild and deeply true.' -Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon

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