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Gr 6 Up–Step aside Karana (Island of the Blue Dolphins)–teen fiction has a new castaway heroine. Robie loves traveling from the Midway Atoll where she lives with her parents, both researchers, to visit her aunt in Honolulu. She’s taken the trip by cargo plane many times by herself, but when a storm hits mid-flight, Robie has to bail out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. With the storm still pouring water over them, the plane’s copilot, Max, inflates the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Fifteen-year-old Robie has been visiting her Aunt Jillian in Honolulu, but when Jillian has to go out of town, Robie is left by herself. That’s okay with her until she’s assaulted on the street and realizes she’s really not old enough to be on her own for a week. She decides to fly home to Midway Island, boarding the monthly supply flight at the last moment. But then the aging Gulfstream turboprop goes down in a storm over ope...Log In or Sign Up to Read More