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On the island / Tracey Garvis Graves.

Summary:

Anna Emerson is a thirty-year-old English teacher desperately in need of adventure. Worn down by the cold Chicago winters and a relationship that s going nowhere, she jumps at the chance to spend the summer on a tropical island tutoring sixteen-year-old T.J. T.J. Callahan has no desire to go anywhere. His cancer is in remission and he wants to get back to his normal life. But his parents are insisting he spend the summer in the Maldives catching up on all the school he missed last year. Anna and T.J. board a private plane headed to the Callahan s summer home, and as they fly over the Maldives twelve hundred islands, the unthinkable happens. Their plane crashes in shark-infested waters. They make it to shore, but soon discover that they re stranded on an uninhabited island. At first, their only thought is survival. But as the days turn to weeks, and then months, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J. s cancer could return. As T.J. celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780142196724
  • ISBN: 014219672X
  • ISBN: 9781466363212
  • Physical Description: 328 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Penguin Group, [2011]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Plume book."
Subject:
Aircraft accidents > Fiction.
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Cancer > Patients > Fiction.
Teenage boys > Fiction.
Maldives > Fiction.
Genre:
Survival fiction.
Robinsonades.
Romance fiction.

Available copies

  • 14 of 16 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library. (Show)

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 16 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Jacksonville Main Library FIC GRAVES (Text) 36015000225694 Adult Fiction Available -
Braswell Memorial Main Library FIC Graves (Text) 540191010013330 Adult Fiction Available -
Columbus Library F GRA (Text) 31250200047484 Adult Fiction Available -
Eden Library Fic Paperback (Text) 31554009430470 Adult Fiction Checked out 08/17/2026
George H. & Laura E. Brown Library AF Gar (Text) 30308100981100 Adult Fiction Available -
Greene County Public Library GARVIS-GRAVES (Text) 39149006652044 Adult Fiction Available -
High Point Library FIC Graves Tracey (Text) 30519008040381 Adult Fiction Available -
J.C. Holliday Library F Graves (Text) 810491000164090 Adult Fiction Romance Available -
Kill Devil Hills Library F GRA (Text) 39488501345674 Adult Fiction On Display -
Kinston-Lenoir County Public Library GARVIS-GRAVES (Text) 39149006547749 Adult Fiction Available -

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