by Scott O'Dell · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582416383
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«Island of the Blue Dolphins» is Scott O'Dell's adventure novel in Penguin Readers (level 3), published in paperback by Pearson Education Limited.
The protagonist is Karana, a young woman who lives on the Island of the Blue Dolphins, off the coast of California, where she must face nature to survive. This abridged edition of the novel, designed for English learners, adapts the original story while maintaining the adventure and the protagonist's connection to her environment.
The original novel was published in 1960; this 1999 edition is an abridged version.
Aimed at students of English as a second language and teenagers with limited reading skills; also useful as guided reading in class.
Scott O'Dell was an American writer of 26 novels for young people, along with three novels for adults and four nonfiction books. He wrote historical fiction, primarily, including several children's novels about historical California and Mexico. For his contribution as a children's writer he received the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1972, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. He received The University of Southern Mississippi Medallion in 1976 and the Catholic Libraries Association Regina Medal in 1978.
