Andrea Spalding - An Island Of My Own

Andrea Spalding

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An Island Of My Own

By: Andrea Spalding
Cover Illustration by: Janet Wilson
Type: Young Adult Novel
Published by: Beach Holme Publishers
Available in: Softcover
ISBN: 0-88878-390-6

When Rowan goes to camp on a small island off B.C.’s west coast, she is surprised to find sea otters in the waters nearby. With the help of her nutty cousins, she tries to save them from disturbance.

Short-listed for Silver Birch award
Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice
Nominee for Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award for 2001
Short-listed for 2000 Tiny TORGI (Talking Book of the year) award

- “ engaging tale of a group of self-reliant teens who are ready to take a stand on an issue they believe in” The Muskokan

Rowan has to stay with her cousins for six months. She is dismayed to discover she is marooned on the West Coast of Vancouver Island in the middle of nowhere, with a family she doesn't understand She decides to take up a project to help pass the time.

When she discovers a group of rare sea otters have colonized the kelp beds around an adjacent island, Rowan vows to protect them. This involves confronting and dealing with real estate and development plans, the owner, TV journalists, potential buyers and wildlife biologists. The resulting plot gives fascinating glimpses of sea otters and an entertaining look at a young teen's struggle to belong.

Andrea wrote this story after falling in love with some sea otters in Vancouver Aquarium, and realizing that these rare animals once lived up and down Canada's West Coast.

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