1. Book Review Day
Which book should you
pick??
September 26, 2012

2. THE ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS
by Scott O’Dell
 A story of survival, based upon the true story of a girl who was left upon
an island near the coast of Southern California. She lived there for 18
years, alone. While she waited for rescue, she kept herself alive by
building shelter, finding food, and fighting her enemies--the wild dogs.

3. HATCHET
by Gary Paulson
 Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit
his father when the single-engine plane in which he is
flying crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in
the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered
Windbreaker and the hatchet his mother gave him as a
present -- and the dreadful secret that has been tearing
him apart since his parent's divorce. But now Brian has
no time for anger, self pity, or despair -- it will take all
his know-how and determination, and more courage
than he knew he possessed, to survive.

4. THE CAY
by Theodore Taylor
 Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curaçao.
War has always been a game to him, and he’s eager to glimpse it
firsthand–until the freighter he and his mother are traveling to the United
States on is torpedoed.
When Phillip comes to, he is on a small raft in the middle of the sea.
Besides a cat, his only companion is an old West Indian, Timothy. The
story follows the three as they must learn to survive on the barren island
in the Caribbean Sea.

5. JULIE OF THE WOLVES
by Jean Craighead George
 To her small Eskimo village, she is known as
Miyax; to her friend in San Francisco, she is
Julie. When the village is no longer safe for
her, Miyax runs away. But she soon finds
herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without
food, without even a compass to guide her.
 Slowly she is accepted by a pack of Arctic
wolves, Mid she grows to love them as though
they were family. With their help, and drawing
on her father's teachings, Miyax struggles day
by clay to survive. But the time comes when
she must leave the wilderness and choose
between the old ways an(] the new. Which will
she choose? For she is Miyax of the Eskimos--
but Julie of the Wolves.

6. THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY
by Sheila Burnford
 Instinct told them that the way home lay to the west. And so the doughty
young Labrador retriever, the roguish bull terrier and the indomitable
Siamese set out through the Canadian wilderness. Separately, they would
soon have died. But, together, the three house pets faced starvation,
exposure, and wild forest animals to make their way home to the family
they love. is one of the great children's stories of all time--and has been
popular ever since its debut in 1961.

7. CALL OF THE WILD
by Jack London
 A classic novel of adventure, drawn from
London's own experiences as a Klondike
adventurer, relating the story of a heroic dog,
who, caught in the brutal life of the Alaska Gold
Rush, ultimately faces a choice between living in
man's world and returning to nature.

8. WHITE FANG
by Jack London
 Born in the wilds of the freezing Yukon, the wolf-cub White Fang soon
learns the harsh laws of nature, growing fiercer and more independent in
his struggle to survive. Yet buried deep inside him are distant memories of
affection and love - can he learn to trust man again?