The Cay
About this book
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
Subjects
- adventure stories
- blacks
- blacks, fiction
- children's fiction
- fiction
- friendship
- friendship, fiction
- juvenile fiction
- prejudices
- prejudices, fiction
- shipwrecks
- shipwrecks, fiction
- survival
- survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks
- survival, fiction