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Shipwreck

Gordon Korman

2001129 pagesabout 2–3 hours
2001
first published
  • 2001Scholastic · 129 pages · ENGISBN 9780439164566
  • 2013Scholastic, Incorporated · ENGISBN 9780545630740
  • 2015Scholastic, Incorporated · ENGISBN 9781484459928
  • 2003Little Apple · 129 pages · ENGISBN 9780439544160
  • 2007Scholastic Audio Books · ENGISBN 9780439023313
  • 2007Scholastic Audio Books · ENGISBN 9780439925433
  • 2001Turtleback BooksISBN 9780606212519
  • 2001Tandem Library · ENGISBN 9780613360685

Six kids, Nick, J.J., Will, Lyssa, Charla, and Ian, are thrown together against their will on a small boat that will make a one-month journey on the Pacific Ocean. They have all been sent for different reasons. Luke is taking his only choice besides being sent to a juvenile detention facility for a crime he didn't commit. Will and Lyssa are quarreling siblings sent by their parents, who hope the trip will teach them to get along better. J.J. was sent by a movie-star father after he pulled one two many pranks. Ian's parents hoped to cure him of his TV addiction. Charla was sent because she was having an athletic "burnout." But these six totally different kids have to learn to work together to survive a vicious storm and a shipwreck that leave them stranded in the middle of the ocean with no food, no water, and almost no hope for survival.

How it feels

AtmosphereStormy

Worth knowing

Written forMiddle grade

When and where

ThemesSurvival
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