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Book Review of The Cay (Cay, Bk 1)

The Cay (Cay, Bk 1)
The Cay (Cay, Bk 1)
Author: Theodore Taylor
Genres: Children's Books, Teen & Young Adult
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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This is a really excellent young adult novel--neat for adults, too! Could you have done as well as young Phillip if YOU'D been stranded on a tiny island in the Caribbean?

From back cover: Shipwrecked! All his life Phillip had looked down upon black-skinned people. Now,suddenly, he was a refugee from a fatal shipwreck, and dependent on an extraordinary West Indain named Timothy. There were just the two of them cast upon the barren little Carribean Island...three if you counted Stew Cat...and a crack on the head had left Phillip blind.