Anyone who has ever been scared of leaving their family will love this book' (from the review, which named Orphan Island a best book of 2017). Orphan Island is not one of the novels that has so far been re-issued and while I really liked it, I would venture the opinion that it is not likely to be as attractive to a modern audience as some of the others. Jinny knows her responsibility now,to teach Ess everything she needs to know about the island, to keep things as they've always been.But will she be ready for the inevitable day when the boat will come back,and take her away forever from the only home she's known?'A unique and compelling story about nine children who live with no adults on a mysterious island. The boat arrives, taking away Jinny's best friend, Deen, replacing him with a new little girl named Ess, and leaving Jinny as the new Elder. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts.And only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to join them,and taking the eldest one away, never to be seen again.Today's Changing is no different. The plot, a group of orphans and a couple of adults are stranded on a desert island in the mid-1800s.

Thought-provoking and magical.' ,Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson seriesIn the tradition of modern-day classics like Sara Pennypacker's Pax and Lois Lowry's The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about nine children who live on a mysterious island.On the island, everything is perfect. Annotation: A National Book Award Longlist title! 'A wondrous book, wise and wild and deeply true.' ,Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon'This is one of those books that haunts you long after you read it.

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