![]() ![]() ![]() They have a very short time to pack what they want to keep, but only what will fit in a duffel bag. He gives a book to Ben on small engine repair because Ben will be the engineer and a book on navigating by the stars to Dylan since he will be the navigator. Without telling the boys, he puts the house up for sale and purchases a sailboat which they will pick up down in the Florida Keys and then sail around the Caribbean for a year. With THAT as an introduction, you start off the book with a deep sense of foreboding, alert for the coming disasters.Īfter their mom dies in a car accident, Dad goes off the deep end. I don't talk about-I never will talk about-when I left Gerry alone, standing there on the empty beach of that desert island with Dylan dying at his feet." "I don't tell about the morning when we woke up and Dad was gone. Much better is the paragraph on the second page of the prologue: ![]() The summary for this book says: "Still mourning the death of their mother, three brothers go with their father on an extended sailing trip off the Florida Keys and have a harrowing adventure at sea." While that is factually correct, it does nothing to prepare you for this book. You know how some books have a short one or two sentence summary? You usually see in on the back of the title page, and in library catalogs. ![]()
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