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Bodeen, S. A.
THE RAFT New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2012 IL YA ISBN 0312650108 (2 booktalks) |
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Booktalk #1 Robie peeked over the edge of the raft, water everywhere. It wasn’t a dream, it was a real nightmare. It was her normal flight from Honolulu to her home on the island. It was the same cargo plane, the same pilot, just a new co-pilot. But something had gone terribly wrong. There was a crash in the ocean. With the pilot dead and the co-pilot unconscious, she struggles to survive on a leaky raft with no supplies but a bag of Skittles. Robie just hoped that help would come in time. Marti Trzepacz, Strath Haven Middle School (Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award nominee, 2014) Booktalk #2 Robie is an experienced traveler. She’s taken the flight from Honolulu to the Midway Atoll, a group of Pacific islands where her parents live, many times. When she has to get to Midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in Hawaii, she gets on the next cargo flight at the last minute. She knows the pilot, but on this flight, there’s a new co-pilot named Max. All systems are go until a storm hits during the flight. The only passenger, Robie doesn’t panic until the engine suddenly cuts out and Max shouts at her to put on a life jacket. They are over untold miles of Pacific Ocean, with no land in sight. She sees Max struggle with a raft. And then . . . she’s in the water. Fighting for her life. Max pulls her onto the raft, and that’s when the real terror begins. They have no water. Their only food is a bag of Skittles. There are sharks. There is an island. But there’s no sign of help on the way. Booktalk from www.scoop.it (scooped by TimothyThomas) (South Carolina Junior Book Award nominee 2015, Prepared by: Randye Q. Polk, Rawlinson Road Middle School, rpolk@rhmail.org) |
| SUBJECTS: Survival
at sea -- Fiction. Pacific Ocean -- Fiction. |
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