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Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as San Nicolas Island.

With inimitable style, Steig tells the story of a mouse, Abelard Hassam di Chirico Flint, who gets swept away in a driving rainstorm while rescuing his wife's scarf and winds up stranded on a river island for a year.

Billy learns a very dangerous lesson when he ignores his uncle Dr.

While spending the summer at Grandmary's home on Goose Lake, Samantha and the twins Agnes and Agatha decide to visit the island where Samantha's parents were drowned during a storm.

Presents color photographs of islands around the world, and includes information about different types of islands, their formation, the processes by which they are populated by plants, animals, and humans, and the destruction of the natural habitats due to human settlements.

In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.

While picnicking on Squaw Island, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose find a hundred dollar bill, and when they return to explore further they find an entire cave full of money.

A young painter listens and learns as he spends the summer observing and working with the artists who flock to his island for the season.

When Michael is swept off his family's yacht, he washes up on a desert island, where he struggles to survive--until he finds he is not alone.

A young girl listens as her great-aunt, a lighthouse keeper's daughter, tells of her childhood living on a Maine island, and of the infant that washed ashore after a storm.

An island is born and as it grows, lava flows, waves pound, and sands mound as the island becomes inhabited.

Describes archipelagoes, including how they form, plants and animals on archipelagoes, how people and weather change archipelagoes, archipelagoes in North America, and the Malay Archipelago.

The discovery of an old map by his sister Thea leads Geronimo and his family to search for buried treasure on a faraway island.

Nothing seems to go right for Eugene, even when he wins a free trip to Bermuda, but while he is stranded on a tiny, deserted island after being shipwrecked, a broken-winged parrot tells him how to build a boat so that they can both be rescued.

Matthais grows from a little boy to a grandfather on a small island off the coast of New England.