Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder

Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder

A National Book Award Longlist title

A wondrous book, wise and wild and deeply true. --Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon

This is one of those books that haunts you long after you read it. Thought-provoking and magical. --Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series

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.

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?

A unique and compelling story about nine children who live with no adults on a mysterious island. Anyone who has ever been scared of leaving their family will love this book (from the Brightly.com review, which named Orphan Island a best book of 2017).

Laurel Snyder is the author of several picture books for young children, among them Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova, which was named an ALA-ALSC Notable Children's Book and received a Parents' Choice Award Silver Honor; Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to Be Kosher, a Sydney Taylor Notable Book; and The Longest Night, winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award. She also wrote the novels Bigger Than a Breadbox; Penny Dreadful, an E. B. White Read-Aloud Honor Book; Any Which Wall; and Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains. Visit her at LaurelSnyder.com, or on Twitter @LaurelSnyder.

Samantha Cotterill grew up in England, France, and Iran, and currently lives with her family in upstate New York. She is the illustrator of No More Bows and Charlotte and the Rock by Stephen W. Martin. She is also a textile designer and blogs under the name MummySam. Learn more at MummySam.com, or follow her on Twitter @mummysamart.

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ISBN 13	9780062443427
ISBN 10	0062443429
Title	Orphan Island
Author	Laurel Snyder
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2018-10-02
Number of pages	288
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