Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as San Nicolas Island. Blure dolphins splash in the water surrounding it, sea otters play in the kelp beds, and seabirds roost in its crags. Once, Indians also lived on the island-until one day they decided to leave and sailed to the east. A young girl was left behind. Karana is that girl. Year after year, she waits for the ship to come back. But it never does. Finally, she realizes she must make a fateful choice: follow her people on he own or remain alone on the island for the rest of her life.
year: 1960, 1978, 1990, 1987, 2010, 1984, 1992, 1997, 2006, 2007, 2009, 1988, 1995, 1985, 2005, 2015, 1964
call number/section: 1000, 920, 6
subjects: survival skills, fiction, indians of north america, survival, san nicolas island, islands, native americans, san nicolas island (calif.), san nicolas island (calif.), fiction, newbery, california, north america, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, juvenile fiction, audiobooks, large type books, large print books, california, juvenile fiction, children's audiobooks, compact discs, newbery medal, 1961
Editions
O'Dell, Scott
Houghton Mifflin (1960)
Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast when her tribe emigrated and she was left behind.
Schools: 59
O'Dell, Scott
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers (1978)
Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast when her tribe emigrated and she was left behind.
Schools: 16
O'Dell, Scott
Houghton Mifflin (1990)
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
Schools: 17
O'Dell, Scott
Yearling (1987)
Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast when her tribe emigrated and she was left behind.
Schools: 12
O'Dell, Scott
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2010)
Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast when her tribe emigrated and she was left behind.
Schools: 17
O'Dell, Scott
Yearling (1984)
Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast when her tribe emigrated and she was left behind.
Schools: 5
O'Dell, Scott
Recorded Books (1992)
Newbery award winner.
Schools: 0
O'Dell, Scott
Listening Library (1997)
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
Schools: 2
O'Dell, Scott
Findaway World (2006)
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
Schools: 5
O'Dell, Scott
Listening Library (2007)
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
Schools: 2
O'Dell, Scott
Recorded Books (2009)
Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast when her tribe emigrated and she was left behind.
Schools: 1
O'Dell, Scott
Scholastic (1988)
Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as San Nicolas Island. Blure dolphins splash in the water surrounding it, sea otters play in the kelp beds, and seabirds roost in its crags. Once, Indians also lived on the island-until one day they decided to leave and sailed to the east. A young girl was left behind. Karana is that girl. Year after year, she waits for the ship to come back. But it never does. Finally, she realizes she must make a fateful choice: follow her people on he own or remain alone on the island for the rest of her life.
Schools: 1
O'Dell, Scott
Listening Library (1995)
An Indian girl discovers strength and serenity as she survives alone for eighteen years on an island off the California coast.
Schools: 0
O'Dell, Scott
Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast when her tribe emigrated and she was left behind.
Schools: 2
O'Dell, Scott
Dell (1985)
Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast when her tribe emigrated and she was left behind.
Schools: 0
O'Dell, Scott
Schools: 0
O'Dell, Scott
Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an islolated island off the California coast when her tribe migrated and she was left behind.
Schools: 0
O'Dell, Scott
Schools: 0
O'Dell, Scott
Thorndike Press (2005)
Fictionalizes the story of a Native American woman's eighteen years of solitary survival on San Nicolas Island, the most remote of California's Channel Islands, after being left there in 1835 when her tribe was removed to the mainland.
Schools: 0
O'Dell, Scott
Findaway World, LLC (2015)
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
Schools: 0
O'Dell, Scott
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
Schools: 1
O'Dell, Scott
Dell (1985)
Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast when her tribe emigrated and she was left behind.
Schools: 1
Film Classics
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Based on Scott O'Dell's Newberry award-winning children's classic this heart-warming adventure of a 19th century Indian girl who becomes stranded on a remote island off the California coast.
Schools: 1
O'Dell, Scott
Schools: 0
O'Dell, Scott
Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast when her tribe emigrated and she was left behind.
Schools: 0
Universal Pictures Company (1964)
Based on Scott O'Dell's book, Island of the Blue Dolphins, an adventure of a 19th century Indian girl who beomes stranded on a remote island off the Califoria coast.
Schools: 1