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Reviewed on January 1, 1989
Gr 6-9 Paulsen gives young readers another wonderful survival story. Fourteen-year - old David Alspeth's uncle Owen has died of a rapidly spreading cancer, but not before bequeathing David his sailboat and extracting the promise that David will, alone, scatter Owen's ashes at sea. Setting off without checking the weather and his supplies, David is caught in a freak storm that pushes him 350 miles from his home harbor in Ventura, Calif. Once ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More