An Island of My Own

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 ott...