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Summary: My ABSOLUTE favorite book of all time!!!
Review: When I read this book in forth grade, I didn't want it to end. That was 5 years ago, and since then I've read it 11 times! I love the way Scott O Dell wrote Island of the Blue Dolphins. I feel as if I'm there going through everything the main chacter is going through. A GREAT book!
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Summary: Very exciting book
Review: I thought this book was exicting because of the character was very stubborn on her ideas and you never knew what she was going to do next.
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Summary: boring
Review: Karana, the little girl in the story, was living on an island. The story is all about the girl arriving on the island of the blue dolphins, which she ends up living there for eighteen years. I didn't like it because it didn't have enough action in it. I think a girl would like it.
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Summary: A odd , but true story of a girl in her early teens.
Review: She was forgotten about. But this story tells the complete and propelling story of the the girl from the islan of the Blue Dophins, to when she gets to Santa Barbara.
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Summary: it was a very good book!!!
Review: well from what i read i loved the book. It was very dramatic.... so i loved the book and you might not but who cares!!!
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I think Island of the Blue Dolphins is a very good book! The way the girl in the story learns to live off the land is amazing! I surely would have starved if i was in her position!
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Summary: A Typical Survival Story: Repetitious and Boring
Review: I'm sorry, but this seems to be just another survival story...and I don't particularly like survival stories. The main character in this story has so little emotion it is hard to view her as a real character, and making her a native american umpteen decades ago doesn't add anything to the story. Plus, each chapter seems to be nothing but a different survival encounter for her...Today, I killed a sea urchin...Today, I scared off some wild animals...Today, I yadda yadda yadda. Now, you may think I'm being critical of this just because I hate all survival stories...that is not so. I have read some good survival stories before, such as Hatchet. They do exist...just not here.
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Summary: Great book!!!!!!
Review: I read this book when I was 8. I liked that this book is about an ordinary girl in an unusual situation. I could think of myself as just like this girl. I loved this book and think everyone should read it.
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Summary: Reflections of My Daughter's Required Reading
Review: My 9-year old daughter was assigned Island of the Blue Dolphins as required summer reading -- her 4th grade class will be studying California history once school starts. My husband and I decided to also read the book for the first time as part of our family reading.Orr daughter enjoyed the book - especially the parts about Karana making friends with the animals and many of the survival descriptions. The book offers tantalizing possiblities for a 9-year old. My husband thought it was a great adventure book, and he liked the idea that the protagonist was a girl this time. I, too, thought it was inspiring that the main character was a brave young female who was able to wrestle the natural environment and yet be respectful of its wonders. I, do, however, have three concerns, perhaps petty and irrelavant given the larger vision of the story: (1) Nowhere in the book was there a mention of how Karana made her many fires -- she used fire to rid the houses at her aband! oned village; she made numerous fires for cooking and keeping warm. I remember only one description that hinted at the difficulty of making fire -- when she sprinkled ashes over her night fire and blew the embers in the morning to keep it alive. (I hope I got the description right.) Fire is basic to sustaining long-term survival for humans. I think a young reader would have apreciated at least a brief description. (2) Given that the book was first published around 1960 or so and written by a man, I can understand why there were no mention of matters related to all girls as they mature from a 12-year old to a woman. Much of the description of survival was gender-neutral, as it should be, but I would have preferred a bit more description of Karana's self-discovery as a female. (3) I'm a bit bothered that many of the great books about girls have the protagonist as conveniently orphaned in order to allow her to make defining moment decisions unfettered by parental, especial! ly, maternal, constraints. While this book falls in that ve! in, Island is however based on a true story, one in which the real Karana had to rely on her wits to survive and make sense of the world. My concerns do not diminish the power of the book and I only wish the book had not eluded me when I was my daughter's age. Our family discussions these past few days have included references to the book. In fact, I just bought the sequel, Zia, for my daughter, and will probably borrow it when she is done with it.
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Summary: A Great Book!
Review: I think Island of the Blue Dolphins is a great book. It talks about a little Indian girl named Karana who has to stay survive for 18 years.The book talks about survival and hope. You should read it.
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