The Islanders

About the Book

Marco, a young boy from Jamaica, has come to Maine. In Jamaica, he had family and friends, but in Maine, he is very alone. Marco becomes friends with Jacob, a lobster fisherman who teachers him how to run his boat. Marco takes the ferry to school on the mainland. Some children harass Marco, but Flanders, an older boy, defends him. One day Marco discovers Jake is missing. He borrows Flanders’s boat and uses his new skills to find him in a winter storm. Read the rest of the story to find out what happens.

About the Author

About the Author Nancy Garfield Woodbridge authored the picture storybooks The Tuesday Elephant, illustrated by Tom Feelings, published by T. Y. Crowell, and The Dancing Monkey, illustrated by Rocco Negri, published by G. P. Putnam and Sons. She also directed several projects for Girl Scouts of the USA: Worlds to Explore, A Handbook for Brownie and Junior Girl Scouts, Careers to Explore and from Dreams to Reality, a Career Education Program, as well as Juvenile Justice. On scholarship, she received a BA in literature from Bennington College in Vermont. She graduated with an MS in education from Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. Ms. Garfield Woodbridge has been writing since she first held a pen at age eight when she wrote her first novel. She has recently published A Bouquet of Fairy Tales, Hilary and the Secret Skulls, Poems in Exile, Stories from Around the World, and More Stories from Around the World. Arctic Butterfly and Suns of Darkness will be published in 2015. About the Illustrator Jocelyn Thomas lives and works in the Fernie-Blairmore portion of the southeastern Canadian Rockies. She grew up in Toronto and has a master's from the Department of Fine Art, University of Toronto. She specialized in art history and archaeology and gained acceptance to the studio program. She pursued post-MA studies briefly at Penn State University. Jocelyn instructed in portraiture at the Avenue Road Arts School in Toronto and was content developer at Medium Cool, a multimedia studio in Toronto, working on projects for Harcourt Brace publishers and Canadian Geographic magazine.