![]() ![]() Jinny knows her responsibility now-to teach Ess everything she needs to know about the island, to keep things as they’ve always been. 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. Award-winning Atlanta-based author Laurel Snyder is known for her numerous picture books and novels for children, including Orphan Island, and My Jasper. ![]() 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. Parents need to know that Orphan Island, by Laurel Snyder ( Seven Stories Up ), is about a magical island thats home to nine kids. ![]()
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