"The cay" by Theodore Taylor

How can you overcome prejudice? How can you live when you are blind? How can you trust a complete stranger with your life? Theodore Taylor does a great job of incorporating detail and suspense into the book The Cay. Here all your questions will be answered. The Cay is an action-packed and adventurous novel. It is about a boy named Phillip who lived in Willemstand, which is found on the island of Curacao. Phillip was forced to leave the island because the German submariners were invading Willemstand. Phillip and his mother left on a steamboat that took them to the United States, but the Germans sunk the ship before it was out of site. Phillip survived the shipwreck and was stranded on an island with a Western Indian named Timothy. When the ship sunk, Phillip hit his head on a board. Later he is on a raft in the middle of the sea. …