O'Dell, Scott. <br/><br/>
Island of the blue dolphins /  
Scott O'Dell. 
 - Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;  1988.  
 - 177 p.  
<br/><br/> Left alone by her Indian tribe when they decide to sail to the east, Karana, a young Indian girl, lives on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, where she spends eighteen years, surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance. Year after year she waits for the ship to return but it never does. Finally she realizes she must make a fateful choice: follow her people on her own or remain alone for the rest of her life. -- From back cover 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780547328614 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Indians of North America. Survival.--Fiction. 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Historical Fiction.