Shipwreck

Format:

Book (regular print)

Title:

Shipwreck

Author:

Korman, Gordon author

ISBN:

9780439164566

9780613360685

9780605322721

9781439519752

9780756913908

Publication:

New York : Scholastic Inc., [2001]

Physical Description:

129 pages ; 20 cm

Series title(s):

Island ;

Number in series:

BK. 1.

General Note:

"Apple paperbacks."

Contents:

Shipwreck -- Survival -- Escape.

Summary:

Six kids, Nick, J.J., Will, Lyssa, Charla, and Ian, are thrown together against their will on a small boat that will make a one-month journey on the Pacific Ocean. They have all been sent for different reasons. Luke is taking his only choice besides being sent to a juvenile detention facility for a crime he didn't commit. Will and Lyssa are quarreling siblings sent by their parents, who hope the trip will teach them to get along better. J.J. was sent by a movie-star father after he pulled one too many pranks. Ian's parents hoped to cure him of his TV addiction. Charla was sent because she was having an athletic "burnout." But these six totally different kids have to learn to work together to survive a vicious storm and a shipwreck that leave them stranded in the middle of the ocean with no food, no water, and almost no hope for survival

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader MG 4.6 3.0 58026.

Subject(s):

Shipwrecks -- Juvenile fiction.

Wilderness survival -- Juvenile fiction.

Shipwrecks -- Fiction.

Genre:

Children's stories.

Action and adventure fiction.

Fiction.

Juvenile works.

Adventure fiction.

Holds:

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Summary

An action-packed survival suspense from bestselling and award-winning author Gordon Korman.Six kids. One shipwreck. One desert island. They didn't want to be on the boat in the first place. They were sent there as punishment, or as a character-building experience. Now the adults are gone, and the quest for survival has begun.

Author Notes

Gordon Korman was born in Montreal, Canada on October 23, 1963. When his 7th-grade English teacher told the class they could have 45 minutes a day for four months to work on a story of their choice, Korman began This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall. He was also the class monitor for the Scholastic TAB Book Club, so he sent his novel to the address on the TAB flyer, and a few days after his 14th birthday, he had a book contract with Scholastic.

By the time he graduated from high school, he had published five other novels and several articles for Canadian newspapers. He received a BFA degree from New York University with a major in Dramatic Writing and a minor in Film and TV. He has written over 75 books for children and young adults including the Swindle series, The Juvie Three, and two books of poetry written by the fictional character Jeremy Bloom.

(Bowker Author Biography)