Scott O'Dell won the Newbery Medal in 1961 for his unforgettable novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins," based on the true story of a Nicoleno Indian girl living in solitude between 1835 and 1853 on San Nicolas Island, only seventy miles off the coast of Southern California. His quietly gripping tale o[...]
This is the story of Karana, the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Year after year, she watched one season pass into another and waited for a ship to take her away.[...]
ABOUT THE BOOK Island of the Blue Dolphins is the 1961 Newbery award-winning book by Scott O'Dell that tells the true story, with some literary license, of a young Indian girl named Karana who was left behind on San Nicolas Island off the California coast, along with her younger brother, after the r[...]