-- Island of the Blue DolphinsSmithsonian magazine put it: "For kids all over the country, reading the book in language arts classes, Karana is a powerful symbol of their growing independence. Through her, they can imagine themselves making their way in the world alone—and thriving."

A sixteen-year-old boy relates his discovery of the Pearl of Heaven and his near-fatal encounter with the feared sea monster, Manta Diablo.

Bright Dawn must face the challenge of the Iditarod dog sled race alone when her father is injured.

A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana, whose story was told in "The Island of the Blue Dolphins."

A young Indian woman, accompanied by her infant and cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.

Próxima á las costas de California se encuentra una escarpada roca conocida con el nombre de La isla de San Nicolás ... Cuenta la historia que, en esta isla y a comienzos del pasado siglo, una muchacha india pasó dieciocho largos años viviendo en completa soledad. Esta novela es el relato de su hazaña. Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast.

Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl brought as a slave to the Danish owned Caribbean island of St. John as she participates in the slave revolt of 1733-1734.

A sixteen-year-old boy sails from nineteenth-century Nantucket to a remote California bay with his two older brothers and finds himself in mysterious circumstances involving the death of one brother and the strange obsession of the other.

In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is the pearl's owner.