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Orphan Island

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A National Book Award Longlist title!

“A wondrous book, wise and wild and deeply true.” —Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning creator of The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“This is a kind of books that haunts you long after you read it. Thought-provoking and magical.” —Rick Riordan, creator of the Percy Jackson series

In the tradition of modern-day classics like Sara Pennypacker’s Pax and Lois Lowry’s The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about nine children who live to tell the tale a mysterious island.

On the island, everything is perfect. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes; the wind, water, and trees shelter and give protection to those who live there; when the nine children fall asleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts.

And only one thing ever changes: on that day, every year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to sign up for them—and taking the eldest one away, never to be seen again.

Today’s Changing is no different. The boat arrives, taking away Jinny’s best friend, Deen, replacing him with a new little girl named Ess, and leaving Jinny as the new Elder. Jinny knows her responsibility now—to teach Ess everything she needs to know about the island, to keep things as they’ve at all times been.

But will she be in a position for the inevitable day when the boat will come back—and take her away ceaselessly from the only home she’s known?

“A unique and compelling story about nine children who live with no adults on a mysterious island. Anyone who has ever been scared of leaving their family will love this book” (from the Brightly.com review, which named Orphan Island a best book of 2017).


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