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A History Of Alcatraz Island 1853-2008

author: Wellman, Gregory L
As one of America's most notorious prisons, Alcatraz has been a significant part of California's history for over 155 years.
979.46
year: 2008
copies: 2
call number/section: 979.46
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Beta

author: Cohn, Rachel
"On a futuristic island paradise where humans are served by enslaved clones, a sixteen-year-old clone named Elysia seeks her own freedom"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: cloning, families [X], resorts, islands [X]

Blue Bay Mystery

author: Warner, Gertrude Chandler, Worley, Rob M
A graphic adaptation of Gertrude Chandler Warner's story in which the Alden children find an unusual mystery when they spend a vacation on a supposedly deserted South Seas Island.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 43
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 340

Sand Dollar Summer

author: Jones, Kimberly
When twelve-year-old Lise spends the summer on an island in Maine with her self-reliant mother and bright--but oddly mute--younger brother, her formerly safe world is complicated by an aged Indian neighbor, her mother's childhood friend, and a hurricane.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790

Bad Island

author: Tennapel, Doug
When Reese is forced to go on a boating trip with his family, the last thing he expects is to be shipwrecked on an island--especially one teeming with weird plants and animals.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 60
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 340

Jack's New Power

author: Gantos, Jack
When his father moves the family to Barbados, thirteen-year-old Jack learns that life is not always idyllic on an island paradise.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 580
subjects: family life, americans, islands [X], barbados, family, families [X]

A Brief History Of Montmaray

author: Cooper, Michelle
In 1936 sixteen-year-old Sophie lives in a crumbling castle in the island kingdom of Montmaray.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1000

The Swiss Family Robinson

author: Wyss, Johann David, Wyss, Johann, Wyss, Hutchinson, Emily, Swan, D. K
An adaptation of the classic novel about a Swiss family who are shipwrecked on an isolated island in the early nineteenth century and must rely upon their ingenuity and nature's providence to survive in their "New Switzerland.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 40
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1260

Swiss Family Robinson

author: Alberto, Daisy
An adaptation of Johann Wyss's novel about an imaginative family that survives and prospers after being shipwrecked on a deserted island where they live over ten years before the chance of rescue arrives.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 610

The Island Keeper

author: Mazer, Harry
Longing to disappear after the death of her beloved younger sister, sixteen-year-old Cleo runs away from her overprotective and oppressive family and goes to a remote island where she is the only human inhabitant.
FIC
year: 1982
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: runaways, survival, islands [X], family life, families [X], runaway children

Tsunami

author: Doman, Mary Kate
When the Silvas go on vacation to Tanna Island, Vanuatu, they are in for more than just a family vacation.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 400
subjects: vacations, volcanoes, tsunamis, families [X], islands [X], australia

Swiss Family Robinson

author: Wyss, Johann David
Relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they imaginatively adapt to life on an island with abundant animal and plant life.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 490

We Were Liars

author: Lockhart, E
Each summer the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family meets on their private island.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 139
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600

What I Thought Was True

author: Fitzpatrick, Huntley
"17-year-old Gwen Castle is a working-class girl determined to escape her small island town, but when rich-kid Cass Somers, with whom she has a complicated romantic history, shows up, she's forced to reassess her feelings about her loving, complex family, her lifelong best friends, her wealthy employer, the place she lives, and the boy she can't admit she loves"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
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Piper Green And The Fairy Tree

author: Potter, Ellen
"Piper's older brother leaves Peek-A-Book Island and Piper refuses to take off his old earmuffs, no matter what! Things are going from bad to worse.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 55
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 490

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