Zia Author:Scott O'Dell What happened to Karanna of the Island of the Blue Dolphins? — When fourteen-year old Zia and her brother, Mando, find a boat cast up on the beach near the Santa Barbara mission, they are determined to make the voyage out to the far island ? the Island of the Blue Dolphins ? where Karana, their aunt, had been left behind nearly eighteen years bef... more »ore, and rescue her.
And so, with a piece of cloth for a sail, a fish hook, a compass, and no sailing experience, Zia and Mando set out in their eighteen-foot boat for the sixty-mile journey, a journey filled with danger and adventure?and a reunion.« less