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Type of bind: Library Type of bind
EAN num: 9781577658016
ISBN number: 1577658019
Label: Abdo Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Abdo Publishing Company
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 238
Printing Date: 2002-01
Publishing house: Abdo Publishing Company
Age index: Ages 9-12
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Studio: Abdo Publishing Company
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Relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they imaginatively adapt to life on an island with abundant animal and plant life.
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I have purchased this book for my homeschooling 6th grader as a reading comprehension material. The language level of this book is 6th to 7th grader material with good amount of challenging vocabs. I liked the introduction of this book a lot. It gave a lot of "behind a scene" story of the author and also, it is a perfect example of a great book report. I strongly recommend to read the introduction, then start reading the book. You will enjoy this book from different perspective.
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I originally read this when I was 10. Diffucult going for a 10 year old, yes. But it was worth it. It's stayed with me my entire life. It's still a great story. All the 1 and 2 star reviews don't surprise me. The mentality of the average American yesterday is laughable. If it doesn't have the story line of some blockbuster movie, it's boring. If 19th century man's scientific knowledge and need to survive is not rewritten to conform to their 21st century, tree hugging, animal rights, urban yuppie/hipster mind set, then it's considered barbaric. If the story doesn't move along at the frantic pace of the latest xbox or wii rendering, then the author is a hack. It's just amazing how poorly educated and developed adults and children of the last couple of generations are. In regards to reading a book, and understanding the context and timeframe it was written in. My suggestion to the mental midgets: stop reading books, your not furthering your own appreciation or knowledge of literature. Turn your HDTV/cable back on for a few hours until your hand recovers from the marathon xbox session. After this your mind should be numb enough to stop writing book reviews.
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I finally finished reading this whole book. I was tempted to give up many times because frankly it can be boring and repetitive in many places. Overall it was a pretty mind numbing experience.
I would not suggest reading it if you have objections to religious teachings. As this book was written for that purpose, teaching virtues of the church. I did appreciate all of the lessons the book taught and I do beleive I gained some appreciation for life and humility.
As said earlier it was quite repetitive, and I beleive it could have been shortened by cutting out some of the very first half. It seemed all they did in that part was kill everything in sight and build stuff over and over and over. Also many of the scenarios were plain unrealistic almost to the point of fantasy. It was almost like they landed in Eden and were "blessed" with every single possible animal in existence running around on the island.
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A fairly low-key and low-rent adventure story. A shipwreck, and miraculously all who survive are of one family unit, plus some pets and enough livestock and food animals to keep them going.
They have to contend with the wildlife, build a tree house and other sorts of things to survive. Pretty tame all around, this story.
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I read this with my 8 year old daughter. When she and I would prepare to read each evening we would joke " Lets see what the Robinson's kill tonight?" Then there is the crazy array of animals. Where in the world can you find Kangaroos, Antelope, Grizzly bears and condors without being in the St. Louis Zoo? This became stupidly funny and neither of us could take any of the book seriously. We finished it just to see how it ended. Even without the killing and impossible aminals it would have been dry and boring from the never ending descriptions of plants discovered and rigging gadgets from stuff they found, which is why Disney added Pirates to their version. I don't reccomend this book at all!
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