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Smuggler’s Island and the Devil Fires of San Moros

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Author(s):Clarissa Kneeland
Illustrator(s):Wallace Goldsmith
F. C. Yohn
Publisher(s): Houghton Mifflin Company
Year Published: 1928
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Adventure
American
Boys Growing Up
Families
Fiction - novel
Girls Growing Up
Robinsonnade
Sea Stories
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 355
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
LCCN: 28022134
OCLC: 1700560

Description

Five children, one only a baby, are abandoned on a desert island in the Sea of Cortez. Marian, the eldest, keeps them alive for seven years, waiting for the baby to grow big enough to survive the sea voyage to safety.

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Other Editions

Smuggler's Island (1915)

Marian Hadley is cast away on a desert island in the Sea of Cortez along with her four younger siblings, one only a baby, and successfully keeps them alive for seven years until they are finally rescued. This is the first edition which does not have the colored plates by Yohn, added for the Riverside edition in 1928.

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
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