| Description |
137 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Note |
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1969. |
| Summary |
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion. |
| Subject |
Survival -- Fiction.
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Shipwrecks -- Fiction.
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Friendship -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780385079068 |
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0385079060 |
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