"This is a book to lose yourself in, and to never forget."—Anne
Ursu, author of The Real Boy |
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Orphan
Island—New from Laurel Snyder
"A wondrous book, wise and wild
and deeply true." —Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning author of
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
For readers who loved 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.
On the island, everything is
perfect. 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. And
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.
Today's Changing is no
different. 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. Jinny
knows her responsibility now—to teach Ess everything she needs to know about the
island, to keep things as they've always been. But 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?
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