An Island of My Own

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Short-listed for the 1999 Silver Birch Award and for the 2001 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award
Fifteen-year-old Rowan, the daughter of foreign correspondents in Africa, finds herself beached for a summer with her cousins near Tofino, British Columbia. Desperate for a summer project, she camps on a neighbouring island to monitor the progress of an endangered group of sea otters, further threatened by the development plans of a real estate agent trying to sell the property for tourism.

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86 printed pages

Original publication: 2008
Publication year: 2008

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Isabel Pycockhas quoted4 years ago
Katrina turned to Mike Newman. “These otters can’t just go somewhere else. They have to find a healthy well-established kelp bed, and even then the small groups seem to be very vulnerable. Even left alone this group may have trouble growing and surviving.”
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Isabel Pycockhas quoted4 years ago
“Aw, come on kid,” said Newman, patting her arm in a friendly fashion. “They’d just go somewhere else. No one’s going to hurt them.”
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Isabel Pycockhas quoted4 years ago
Two pairs of legs were marching along the beach, topped by large pieces of cardboard saying: OTTERS OTTER BE LEFT ALONE

“Otters ought to be left alone, otters ought to be left alone,” chanted the twins in unison as they halted in front of the Zodiac.
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