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The Enchanted Island

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014-07-03
主題	Juvenile Nonfiction / Readers / IntermediateJuvenile Fiction / Readers / Chapter Books
ISBN	15004114939781500411497
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GOS2oAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"By the time they were halfway to their fishing spot, the winds had picked up and the sea had turned from a soft cobalt blue to a darkening gray, almost black. The sky became a thick ominous blanket of cloud and thunder could be heard in the distance. Without warning the small, worn fishing boat was seized by invisible hands that whipped it into a frenzy of unrelenting circles. Fear filled the shallow space below the deck where a nine-year-old girl named Mariposa Torres huddled trembling. Her grandfather clung to the wheel. The raging wind had become so strong he could barely hold on, let alone steer the boat. The wind was captain of their fate." When Mariposa and her grandfather become shipwrecked on a mysterious island, they discover an abandoned castle with room for thirty children. But what happened to the kids? Alone and distraught that she will have to celebrate her tenth birthday without her friends, she begins to make friends with the flowers they saved in the garden and spends her time listening to the stories her grandfather makes up. One of the tales concerns Waldemar, a wise old wizard, and Marques, an evil sorcerer, but is it merely a story? Is there really a curse at work on the island? And what is the secret connection to Mariposa's dead parents? Join us and find out.