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THE
CAY
Theodore Taylor
Hardcover Delacorte Press | November 1987 | $16.95 | 0-385-07906-0
| Ages 10 up
Audio Listening Library April 1992 | $18.00 | 0-553-47038-8 |
Eleven-year-old Phillip
Enright lives on the small island of Curaçao just off the
coast of Venezuela where he is free to roam with his good friend
Henrik. It is 1942 and the threat of a German invasion rocks the
island, so Mrs. Enright decides to take Phillip back to the states.
The ship they are traveling on is torpedoed, and Phillip is separated
from his mother and left floating on a wooden raft with Timothy,
a black man from the West Indies. The two drift for days until they
come upon a small cay where they build a hut and hunt for food.
Phillip is blinded by a head injury, and must depend upon Timothy
to learn survival skills. This is tough for Phillip because he harbors
racial prejudices learned from his mother, but the two become friends,
and along the way, they learn to recognize their similarities and
accept their differences.
COPYRIGHT
Prepared by Pat Scales, Director
of Library Services, the South Carolina Governor’s School
for Arts and Humanities, Greenville, SC
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