The Raft by S A Bodeen

The Raft by S A Bodeen

The Raft is a thrilling novel of survival from award-winning author S.A. Bodeen.

Robie is an experienced traveler. She's taken the flight from Honolulu to the Midway Atoll, a group of Pacific islands where her parents live, many times. When she has to get to Midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in Hawaii, she gets on the next cargo flight at the last minute. She knows the pilot, but on this flight, there's a new co-pilot named Max. All systems are go until a storm hits during the flight. The only passenger, Robie doesn't panic until the engine suddenly cuts out and Max shouts at her to put on a life jacket. They are over miles of Pacific Ocean. She sees Max struggle with a raft.

And then . . . she's in the water. Fighting for her life. Max pulls her onto the raft, and that's when the real terror begins. They have no water. Their only food is a bag of Skittles. There are sharks. There is an island. But there's no sign of help on the way.

S.A.Bodeen is the author of The Compound, which was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start, an ALA Fast Choice for Young Adults, and a Bank Street Best Children's Novel of the Year. She's also the author of several picture books, including the Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning Elizabeti's Doll. Bodeen grew up on a Wisconsin dairy farm. Her earliest pals were cows, whom she named after fictional characters. She went on to volunteer for the Peace Corps in East Africa and has lived in seven states as well as a remote Pacific island since then.

She is a bookworm who who like cheese. She resides in the state of Oregon.