{"product_id":"orphan-island-book-laurel-snyder-9780062443410","title":"Orphan Island","description":"\u003cp\u003eA National Book Award Longlist title!\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A wondrous book, wise and wild and deeply true.\" --Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is one of those books that haunts you long after you read it. Thought-provoking and magical.\" --Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of modern-day classics like Sara Pennypacker's Pax and Lois Lowry's The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about nine children who live on a mysterious island.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the island, everything is perfect. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes; the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there; when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnd only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to join them--and taking the eldest one away, never to be seen again.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToday's Changing is no different. The boat arrives, taking away Jinny's best friend, Deen, replacing him with a new little girl named Ess, and leaving Jinny as the new Elder. Jinny knows her responsibility now--to teach Ess everything she needs to know about the island, to keep things as they've always been.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut will she be ready for the inevitable day when the boat will come back--and take her away forever from the only home she's known?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A unique and compelling story about nine children who live with no adults on a mysterious island. Anyone who has ever been scared of leaving their family will love this book\" (from the Brightly.com review, which named Orphan Island a best book of 2017).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49610904207633,"sku":"GOR009897639","price":11.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50106160414993,"sku":"CIN0062443410VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50173874700561,"sku":"CIN0062443410G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50208900546833,"sku":"CIN0062443410A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52632930615569,"sku":"GOR011621559","price":11.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0062443410.jpg?v=1751425380","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-ch\/products\/orphan-island-buch-laurel-snyder-9780062443410","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}