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O'Dell has chosen young Indian girls as narrators in three other novels, and they share Karana's character traits of courage, independence, and self-reliance. Zia, the title character in Zia (1976), a sequel to Island of the Blue Dolphins, is another fourteen-year-old determined to take life into her own hands. She lives at a California mission where she studies and works, but she is obsessed with the idea of rescuing her aunt Karana from the distant island. Along with her younger brother, she makes an attempt to sail a small open boat on a rescue voyage. Although unsuccessful, the trip provides a number of exciting adventures, but Zia has to wait for a local ship captain to make the successful rescue voyage.

Meanwhile she has trouble with oppressive Spanish authorities, helps the other Indian workers at the mission to escape, as a result spends some time in jail, and,...
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