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When twelve-year-old Jason rows his boat to the Maine island where he has accidentally left his father's knife, he must face threatening fog, treacherous currents, and a sinister lobsterman.

Book one in a trilogy about six children whose boat is lost in a storm and who must learn to survive on a desert island.

Text and color photos and diagrams present an overview of coasts and islands, covering ocean currents, changing rock faces, plants and wildlife, coral, the formation of beaches and islands, and other related topics.

Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina.

When, after a four-year absence, seventeen-year-old Squid returns to her childhood home on a remote lighthouse island off British Columbia with her young daughter in tow, she and her parents try to come to terms with each other and the painful events of the past, especially the death of her older brother.

In a desperate attempt to escape the embarrassment of his financial failures in America, Murray Murdoch moves his entire family to a small island off the northwest coast of Italy, but Murray soon learns he can't run from his problems.

Offers students an overview of islands, explaining how they are formed, what the largest island is, how many islands there are, and other related topics.

Depicts the changes that occur on a small island as the seasons come and go, as day changes to night, and as a storm approaches.

Nine-year-old Charlie and her horse befriend a boy and his pony, who have just moved to the island where she lives but are homesick for Iceland.

Six Matorans travel to a mysterious island to rescue the Toa Nuva from monsters called the Piraka.

The Toa Nuva must save an island from six powerful figures who might unleash an ancient evil in their pursuit of treasure.

Will and Sylvia search for the mysterious Hand of Dinotopia, which will supposedly lead to a safe sea route to and from the hidden island where people and dinosaurs live together peacefully.

The peaceful world of Dinotopia, an island inhabited by intelligent dinosaurs and shipwrecked humans, is threatened when the sabertooth tigers who live in the Forbidden Mountains are cut off from their normal food supply by an avalanche.

Explains the differences between islands and continents, tells how they were formed, and points out that some are not surrounded by water all of the time.

Robin begins to realize the intricacy of what it means to be human when she rescues an innocent man mistaken for a beast and takes him home with her.