This article is about the Cynthia Rylant book. For the Dave Dobbyn album, see The Islander (album). For the Nightwish song, see The Islander (song).
The Islander is a book published in 1998 by the Newbery Medal winning author Cynthia Rylant.
It is the story of Daniel, whose parents have died; he goes to live with his grandfather on a remote gray island off British Columbia. Together they live a very lonely life, hardly talking to anyone. But the loneliness soon lifts from Daniel when he meets a mermaid. He returns to the shore later, hoping to meet her again, but instead finds a sea otter, who then tosses him a seashell which contains a key. This book is his search to find what the key unlocks. Which is the key to life.
External links
- The Islander publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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