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What it is about

  • Shipwreck survival
  • Survival at sea
  • Human-animal relationships
  • Storytelling
  • Teenage boys
  • Ocean travel

Where it happens

  • Pacific Ocean
  • India

Kind of book

  • Novel

Came out

  • 2000s

Ages

  • Adult

Awards

  • Booker Prize

About this book

Its Library of Congress subjects: Shipwreck survival, Survival at sea, Human-animal relationships, Storytelling. It is set in Pacific Ocean.

Reading level: Fiction (HarperCollins).

Where this comes from: Library of Congress · HarperCollins

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