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Ages 8+

Written by Theodore Taylor - Audio book performed by Michael Boatman - Unabridged Fiction - 3 COMPACT DISCS - 3 hours

Publisher, Listening Library / Random House Audiobooks (February 2005)

Received the coveted AudioFile Magazine's 'Earphones Award' (June / July 2005) for exceptional narrative voice and style, vocal characterization, appropriateness for audio format and enhancement of the text!

"A taut, tightly compressed story of endurance and revelation." --Kirkus Reviews

"Eloquently underscores the intrinsic brotherhood of man." --Booklist

Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curaçao. War has always been a game to him, and he’s eager to glimpse it firsthand–until the freighter he and his mother are traveling to the United States on is torpedoed.

When Phillip comes to, he is on a small raft in the middle of the sea. Besides Stew Cat, his only companion is an old West Indian, Timothy. Phillip remembers his mother’s warning about black people: “They are different, and they live differently.”

But by the time the castaways arrive on a small island, Phillip’s head injury has made him blind and dependent on Timothy.

About the Author: Theodore Taylor was born in North Carolina and began writing at the age of thirteen as a cub reporter for the Portsmouth, Virginia Evening Star. He left home at seventeen to join the Washington Daily News as a copy boy, working his way toward New York City, and became an NBC sportswriter at the age of nineteen. Since then he has been a manager of prizefighters, a merchant seaman, a naval officer, a magazine writer, a movie publicist and production assistant, and a documentary filmmaker. He has written many books for adults and child, including The Cay, which won many literary awards, including the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was made into a movie. Mr. Taylor lives in Laguna Beach, California.