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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
Publisher(s): Houghton Mifflin Company
Year Published: 1915
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Adventure
Boys Growing Up
Families
Fiction - novel
Girls Growing Up
Mexican
Robinsonnade
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 357
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 1196364151

Description

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.

Other Editions

Smuggler’s Island and the Devil Fires of San Moros (1928)

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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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
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