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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for Grades 4-8

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction

Topic
Castaway | Friendship | Survival | Trust
Geographic Region
Asia | Japan
Main Character
Boy(s)
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Kensuke’s Kingdom

Author: Morpurgo, Michael

When Michael is washed up on an island in the Pacific after falling from his parent’s yacht, the Peggy Sue, he struggles to survive on his own. But he soon realises there is someone close by, someone who is watching over him and helping him to stay alive. Following a close-run battle between life and death after being stung by a poisonous jelly fish, the mysterious someone–Kensuke–allows Michael into his world and they become friends, teaching and learning from each other, until the day of separation becomes inevitable.
Morpurgo here spins a yarn which gently captures the adventurous elements one would expect from a desert-island tale, but the real strength lies in the poignant and subtle observations of friendship, trust and, ultimately, humanity.

Beautifully illustrated by Michael Foreman, Kensuke’s Kingdom is a stylish, deceptively simple and magical book that will effortlessly capture the heart and imagination of anyone who reads it, ensuring that Morpurgo continues to stand tall amid the ranks of classic children’s authors. (Ages 9 and over) –Susan Harrison

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Lexile/Reading Level
770L

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fantasy | Fiction | Historical

Date
1800s
Topic
Animals | Castaway | Dogs | Ghosts | Paranormal | Pirates | Sailing the seas
Main Character
Animal | Boy(s)
Format
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Angel’s Command (Flying Dutchman #2)

Author: Jacques, BrianPart of a Series: Flying Dutchman

Ben and his black labrador, castaways from the legendary ghost ship Flying Dutchman, swore never to go to sea again. But fate casts them adrift once more on a French pirate ship, with two villainous sea captains–and a ghost–in pursuit.

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Lexile/Reading Level
840L

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fantasy | Fiction

Topic
Castaway | Little People | Satire | Shipwreck
Main Character
Man/Men
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Gulliver’s Travels

Author: Swift, Jonathan

Shipwrecked castaway Lemuel Gulliver’s encounters with the petty, diminutive Lilliputians, the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos give him new, bitter insights into human behavior. Swift’s fantastic and subversive book remains supremely relevant in our own age of distortion, hypocrisy, and irony.

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Lexile/Reading Level
340L

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Mystery

Topic
Castaway | Mystery
Main Character
Boy(s) | Girl(s)
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Blue Bay Mystery (The Boxcar Children #6)

Author: Warner, Gertrude ChandlerPart of a Series: Boxcar Children

The Aldens find a castaway on a South Sea island. How did he get there and who is he?

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1st0-300L
2nd140-500L
3rd330-700L
4th445-810L
5th565-910L
6th665-1000L
7th735-1065L
8th805-1100L
9th855-1165L
10th905-1195L
11th/12th940-1210L
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