SuitabookCo-operation under pressure
Six young people who have been brought together unwillingly must learn to work together after becoming stranded at sea.
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Gordon Korman - Author
This is a high-stakes survival adventure built around six very different young people learning to depend on one another in extreme circumstances.
Six kids, Nick, J.J., Will, Lyssa, Charla, and Ian, are thrown together against their will on a small boat that will make a one-month journey on the Pacific Ocean. They have all been sent for different reasons. Luke is taking his only choice besides being sent to a juvenile detention facility for a crime he didn't commit. Will and Lyssa are quarreling siblings sent by their parents, who hope the trip will teach them to get along better. J.J. was sent by a movie-star father after he pulled one two many pranks. Ian's parents hoped to cure him of his TV addiction. Charla was sent because she was having an athletic "burnout." But these six totally different kids have to learn to work together to survive a vicious storm and a shipwreck that leave them stranded in the middle of the ocean with no food, no water, and almost no hope for survival.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a high-stakes survival adventure built around six very different young people learning to depend on one another in extreme circumstances.
Six young people who have been brought together unwillingly must learn to work together after becoming stranded at sea.
A storm and shipwreck leave the group stranded in the middle of the ocean without food or water.
The young people enter the voyage after parents or circumstances respond to alleged offending, pranks, sibling quarrels, television use, or athletic burnout.
Expect sustained danger: a vicious storm, shipwreck, isolation, and the absence of food and water. The emotional weight of the characters' personal circumstances may also merit attention.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; another book-specific source is still needed.
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