Summary

Chapter 17

It’s the next morning and still no one has come to rescue the children. They begin to lose hope and Turtle tells the reader that despite the fact that Terry Lee and Shirley Temple manage to always make it out okay that this is reality, not fantasy. As day transitions into night Turtle dreams she is next to Shirley Temple and it’s an awards show, to which she wins the award for being the only girl stranded on an island with a group of boys with no chance for a rescue.

Though the light of the next morning wakes Turtle up. They hear voices yelling for them and go out to find Slow Poke, Ollie, and Johnny Cakes there looking for them. Slow Poke rushes past Ollie, who had been calling them, and picks Turtle off of the ground in...