This was an sad yet interesting book. It gave a great message that under different colored skin, we are all the same. At some parts, I almost cried and at other parts, and was very happy. I don't want to give away to much, but here's a little summary. A white boy named Philip gets stranded on an island with a black man named Timothy. Philip has learned to stay away from black people, but Timothy is quite different. They go through extraordinary things together and grow fond of each other. I would recommend this book to 4-6 graders and to people who like adventure and historical fiction. I personally loved this book.

This was an sad yet interesting book. It gave a great message that under different colored skin, we are all the same. At some parts, I almost cried and at other parts, and was very happy. I don't want to give away to much, but here's a little summary. A white boy named Philip gets stranded on an island with a black man named Timothy. Philip has learned to stay away from black people, but Timothy is quite different. They go through extraordinary things together and grow fond of each other. I would recommend this book to 4-6 graders and to people who like adventure and historical fiction. I personally loved this book.

This book is not only a great and an interesting read. But is has a true life lesson also. It displays a young boy, Phillip and an old but wise man of the opposite color named Timothy. It is truly a good and satisfying story. Theodore Taylor takes a plain and simple statement that we are all the same under the skin and illustrates it with a devastatingly simple story.

I decided to read this book about the horror and ghosts in this story. But turns out,it is not the scariest I would want it to be. But it is a great book! It is about two sisters that moved to a new boarding school and are trying to start a new life. But they don't realize the secrets within this new place!