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Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Sent to her grandmother's estate in Trinidad, Rika meets a group of kids with elemental powers called Minders, who reveal that her long-lost mom is in danger, sending Rika on a magical adventure where she must learn to believe in herself to destroy evil.
62) Adrift
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The resilience of two cousins is tested when one of them is lost at sea and washes up on a deserted island while the other remains at home, holding on to the belief that her beloved cousin is still alive.
63) Hurricane child
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
64) The island
Author
Publisher
Lemniscaat USA
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"The golden father-daughter team creates a world without words of its own, with a polar bear's dreamy road trip along awe-inspiring islands and colorful animal friends." -- Provided by publisher.
66) The sea pony
Author
Series
Piper Green and the fairy tree volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
On an island off the coast of Maine, where children ride lobster boats to school, Piper wants a horse but finds, instead, another object hidden in the red maple tree.
67) The pirate pig
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
On Butterfly Island, sailer Stout Sam and his deckhand Pip must rescue their treasure-sniffing pig from nasty pirate Barracuda Bill.
68) Edgeland
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Orphaned Wren and her friend Alec live on Edgeland, where the dead are prepared for the afterlife, but when they are accidentally sucked into the Drain, they find something unimaginable.
70) Moonpenny Island
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
On Moonpenny Island, eleven-year-old Flor O'Dell experiences a series of life changes after her best friend's sent away to a private school.
71) My island
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A young girl imagines living on an island filled with birds, animals, flowers, and song where her friends, including the reader, are always welcome.
73) Dragon captives
Author
Series
Unwanteds quests volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Magical twins Fifer and Thisbe Stowe have spent their entire lives wishing for an adventure. When a dragon shows up claiming that his family is being kept as slaves in their homeland, the twins sneak off to the land of the dragons to help them"--
74) Jubilee
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"Judith stopped talking long ago when Mom left her in the care of beloved Aunt Cora. Going back into a regular fifth-grade classroom won't be easy, but she has her Dog and new friend who will help her through"--
Author
Series
Fitzgerald-Trouts volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The Fitzgerald-Trouts are four barely related siblings living together in a small car on a lush tropical island, but when they begin to outgrow their small vehicle, they must band together to find a new home"--
76) Going places
Author
Series
Piper Green and the fairy tree volume 4
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf/Yearling
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Hidden in the fairy hole of the red maple tree are x-ray vision glasses that Piper takes to school to use as her class learns about traveling to China.
Author
Series
Flying beaver brothers volume 5
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ace and Bub must stop a team of smooth-talking baboons from stealing Beaver Island's water to supply their water park.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Tori, Marvin, and Noah would rather be anywhere else than on the seventh grade class field trip to Raven Island prison ... But when the three of them stumble upon a dead body in the woods, miss the last ferry back home, and then have to spend the night on Raven Island, they find that they need each other now more than ever"--
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On islands around the world—from Manhattan to Phillip Island, Australia, to Komodo Island and beyond—nine children face life-changing moments: escaping a flood; embracing their identity; discovering that the adults in their lives can ease the burden of their eco-anxiety. And although each child couldn’t be more different, one thing connects them all: a turtle swam into each of their lives at a critical moment, and left them changed. -from Amazon....
80) Dessert island
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Monkey is stuck on an island made of desserts, and Fox on one made of dirt and rocks, but as time passes, fortunes change and they learn about sharing and caring.
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