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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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