The Cay
by Theodore Taylor
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Author: Theodore TaylorEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Published: 2003-04-08
ISBN: 044022912X
Number of pages: 144
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
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Book Review: amazing book
Summary: 5 Stars
this is a wonderful book
very intense and emotional which makes it even more intresting
this book is my favirote all should enjoy and read this!!!
Wonderful life lesson taught!!!!
2 thumbs up!!
Summary of The Cay
This award-winning novel remains a powerful classic of prejudice, love, and survival. In 1942, 11-year-old Phillip Enright lives with his parents on the Dutch island of Cura?ao, but when the war moves too close for comfort, his mother decides to travel with him back to the safety of Virginia. When their boat is torpedoed, however, Phillip is blinded and finds himself adrift on a life raft with an old black man and a cat. They eventually land on a deserted island. Phillip is suspicious of "the large Negro," but soon grows to trust--and ultimately love--the patient and generous Timothy. Dedicated to "Dr. King's Dream," The Cay has a clear message that friendship is colorblind; it is also a terrific adventure story of a young, newly blinded man learning to survive on an uninhabited island. (Ages 12 and older) --Richard FarrPhillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Cura?ao. War has always been a game to him, and he’s eager to glimpse it firsthand–until the freighter he and his mother are traveling to the United States on is torpedoed.
When Phillip comes to, he is on a small raft in the middle of the sea. Besides Stew Cat, his only companion is an old West Indian, Timothy. Phillip remembers his mother’s warning about black people: “They are different, and they live differently.”
But by the time the castaways arrive on a small island, Phillip’s head injury has made him blind and dependent on Timothy.
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