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Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell.
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Scott O'Dell penned his first children's book when he was in his early sixties. That book, Island of the Blue Dolphins, was an instant success, winning the prestigious Newbery Medal and launching a ne...
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May 23, 1898. Born on Terminal Island, Los Angeles, California, to May Elizabeth Gabriel and Bennett Mason O'Dell, an official of the Union Pacific Railroad, O'Dell's great-grandmother was a first cou...
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Scott O'Dell is one of the best-known writers of historical fiction for children from eight to ten through adolescence. His contributions to literature for children would be significant if he had writ...
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Critical Essay by Ellen Lewis Buell
["Island of the Blue Dolphins"] is a romance only in the older sense of the word. It has no hero, no frills, none of the usual feminine props, but I t...
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Critical Essay by Carolyn T. Kingston
Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Yearling [by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings] and It's Like This, Cat [by Emily Neville] illustrate what can happen to a hero or ...
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Critical Essay by Jon C. Stott
Each year, with the increase in number of children's books, it is often necessary to retreat from the volume of present publication to reexamine those works which...
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Critical Essay by Joyce Milton
Karana, the Indian girl left to survive alone for 18 years [in Island of the Blue Dolphins] was a one-in-a-million child protagonist—a loner free to work her dest...
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Critical Essay by Barbara Wersba
It would be easy for the reviewer to compare ["Zia"] to the earlier ["Island of the Blue Dolphins"] and bemoan the fact that sequels are ri...
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Critical Essay by Ethel L. Heins
It is an act of bravery for an author, after so many years, to pick up and rework the threads of a story that has achieved such resounding success. But for Scott O�...
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Critical Essay by New York Herald Tribune Books
Occasionally we rejoice to find a book not written to fulfill any need or with any audience in mind, but simply because the subject has seized the autho...
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Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland
Despite a series of highly dramatic incidents [in Sarah Bishop], the story line is basically sharp and clear; O'Dell's messages about the bitterness and...
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Critical Essay by John Gillespie and Diana Lembo
The rare quality of [Island of the Blue Dolphins] lies in Mr. O'Dell's ability to depict the majesty of the heroine's lonely strug...
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Critical Essay by John Rowe Townsend
The title of Island of the Blue Dolphins, lovely in sound and evocative in all its key words (for the 'blue' transfers itself to the ocean), sums up ...
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I did my book review on The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell. This story is about a 12-year old Native American girl who suddenly finds herself alone on an islet off the California coast at...
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Teaching Island of the Blue Dolphins
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A foundation of materials for teaching a work of literature, LitPlan Teacher Packs from Teacher's Pet Publications have everything you need for a complete unit of study. Download, print, and teach....
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Here's a whole manual full of puzzles, games, and worksheets related to the novel! It includes: 1 unit word list and clues, 4 unit fill in the blank worksheets, 4 unit multiple choice worksheets, 4...
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Here's a whole manual full of puzzles, games, and worksheets related to the novel! It includes: 1 unit word list and clues, 4 unit fill in the blank worksheets, 4 unit multiple choice worksheets, 4...
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This is a story of a young girl, Karana, who is faced with the most frightening of all challenges - to exist alone. Novel by Scott O'Dell. Reproducible chapter questions, plus comprehension questio...
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This resource is directly related to its literature equivalent and filled with a variety of cross-curricular lessons to do before, during, and after reading the book. This reproducible book include...
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Critical Essay by Ellen Lewis Buell
Book Review of "Island of the Blue Dolphins"
A Guide for Using Island of the Blue Dolphins in the Classroom
