by Scott O'Dell · Dell Yearling Book · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582538191
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«Island of the Blue Dolphins» is the graded reader of Scott O'Dell's adventure novel, in paperback (88 pages, in English).
Karana, a young Indian girl, is left alone on the island of San Nicolás when her tribe departs eastward. She spends eighteen years waiting for a ship to pick her up while building a shelter, preparing weapons, foraging for food, and defending herself from wild dogs. A story of survival, solitude, and maturity amid nature.
Book 1 of the Island of the Blue Dolphins series. 1973 edition adapted and simplified by Roland John, illustrated by Keith Ward, in the Longman Structural Readers collection (level 4).
For students of English as a foreign language (ELT) and young readers from about 9 years old.
Scott O'Dell was an American writer of 26 novels for young people, along with three novels for adults and four nonfiction books. He wrote historical fiction, primarily, including several children's novels about historical California and Mexico. For his contribution as a children's writer he received the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1972, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. He received The University of Southern Mississippi Medallion in 1976 and the Catholic Libraries Association Regina Medal in 1978.
