The Cay
Philip, an adolescent white boy who is blinded in a torpedo attack at sea during World War II, acquires a new type of vision, courage, and love when he is stranded on a tiny Caribbean island with Timothy, a kind, elderly black man.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 288
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: large type books, survival, friendship, prejudices, blacks, shipwrecks [X], survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, race relations, blind, caribbean area, caribbean region [X], survival skills, castaways
Hurricane Dancers
Quebrado has been a slave on captain Bernadino de Talavera's pirate ship for years, but when a hurricane sinks the ship and kills most of the crew, Quebrado escapes to safety and finds acceptance and refuge in a nearby village.
811
year: 2014
copies: 15
call number/section: 811
lexile: 1170
subjects: shipwrecks [X], pirates, indians of the west indies, children's poetry, american, caribbean area, caribbean region [X], indians of north america, native americans