By: Theodore Taylor Publisher: Harcourt Paperbacks Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Harcourt Paperbacks Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 176 Publication Date: April 01, 2007 Reading Level: Ages 9-12
In the novel The Cay, a young white boy and an old black man are stranded on a small sandy cay in the Caribbean Sea following a shipwreck. Eleven-year-old Phillip was blinded by flying debris when a torpedo struck the SS Hato, and old Timothy has taught him how to survive. This prequel-sequel tells the rest of their tale in alternating chapters--the compelling story of two very different people who share the courage and tenacity to turn their dreams into reality.
great book a great book for middle schoolers very intense DO NOT read Timothy of The Cay before the cay it ruins the story and meaning
Good classic for young teens This is a good story for young teens. Unfortunately WW II is ancient history for most of them, but the storyline intrigues most.
SUPER STORY THIS IS A VERY INTERESTING AND EXCITING BOOK FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. IT NEVER GETS BORING!! THE ENDING WAS A SHOCK, BUT IT MADE THE WHOLE STORY MORE REALISTIC. THIS WAS ANOTHER BOOK THAT MY STUDENTS COULD NOT PUT DOWN. ALMOST ALL OF THEM READ AHEAD (EVEN WHEN I ASKED THEM NOT TO). ANY BOOK THAT KEEPS KIDS INTERESTED IN READING IS GOLD TO ME!!
A really good book but not good enough for five stares but close It was a thriller so every one should read this book. I think that this is a good book because you would read it and then somthing would happen and you would get cought up in it and forget everthing else. Thats why its a good book. Agian every one should be forced to read it. You can tell the writer as taken his time and used it wisley. Because now he has a great book. read it or else. nothing will happen.
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The Cay by Theodore Taylor was a very good book in my opinion. I say that because the book has two very well described characters. One main character is Timothy a big, black man with white hair in his seventies. Another main character is Philip a white boy that is eleven and is blind for most of the story. The story began in February of 1942 at the beginning of World War Two.
The plot in this story was also very good. It begins on the small island of Willemstad that had been attacked by German submarines. Philip's mom and Philip both leave to go to America by ship (Philip's mom is afraid of airplanes and Philips dad has to stay on the island because that is where he works). Their ship gets torpedoed in the ocean and Timothy pulls Philip on his raft that he found (Timothy was one of the ship's crewmen). Then Philip goes blind from a wooden plank hitting his head. They drift around on the ocean for days then land on the cay. Timothy and Philip survive on the cay by eating sea grapes, coconuts, fish, and Langosta (a lobster without claws). While on the cay, Timothy dies from injuries received in a hurricane, and a few days later Philip is picked up by an American ship. In the end, Philip meets back up with his parents and they stay in Willemstad and don't move back to America.
One of the main themes of this book was racism. One example of racism used is when Philip's mom doesn't let him go down to the docks because of the black people there. Another is how Philip first responds to Timothy. Philip first thinks that Timothy is just an ugly and stubborn black man, but when Timothy dies Philip realizes that Timothy was only stubborn because it was the only way for Philip to survive alone on the cay. I thought that this was a great book that you should read if you like survival and adventure stories.
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