Baby Island, by Carol Ryrie Brink
5 stars!
Description: Capable twelve-year-old Mary Wallace and her
not-so-capable, ten-year-old sister
Jean are traveling alone to Australia when the ship capsizes! In the chaos that
ensues, Mary and Jean are put on the wrong lifeboat – the one with the four
screaming babies! The two sisters are
set adrift with babies Elisha
(the “pink” twin), Elijah (the “blue” twin), Ann Elizabeth (the spoiled but
lovable one-year-old) and Jonah … whom Mary has a hard time keeping
Jean from throwing overboard in hopes it will calm the storm like in the
biblical Jonah story. When they reach Baby Island, they have all sorts of misadventures just
trying to survive alone on a deserted island.
Concerns: None.
Summary: Practical Mary simply
wants to live through this baby-abundant adventure while nutty Jean naturally wants to survive, but also
have fun! Baby Island certainly has the means; tracking the mysterious Friday, searching for pirate’s treasure,
conversing with a talking parrot, and attempting to keep the identical twins
from getting mixed up all contribute to a wild,
crazy and witty adventure all the way through!
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