The wonder book of the raft by sa bodeen

Page 145 shading my good eye, i looked out into the water. Shes taken the flight from honolulu to the midway atoll, a group of pacific islands where her parents live, many times. My favorite plot of the book is the narrative hook, technical climax, and the falling action. I also wonder if robie is going to starve to death without help. Robie is a experienced traveler but never had a trip like this.

Fifteenyearold mason, with a badly scarred face and a football linemans body, loves biology and desperately wants to go to college. Bodeen or stephanie stuve bodeen is an american childrens and young adult book author. Robie mitchell had been visiting her aunt in hawaii, but now she was cutting. Bodeen includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 57 chapters, as well as several more indepth sections of expert. Bodeen is the story of a plane crash and a desperate attempt at survival by a fifteen year old teenager. Sep 26, 2012 ive been in the mood for some bleak survivalend of the world as we know it reads, and i spied both of these books patiently waiting for their turn to be read on my admittedly overflowing tbr. I had some positive and negative opinions on the raft.

The compound is a 2009 bank street best childrens book of the year. The baby seal comes out of the water later, looking for its mother. Not only do i know ill get a good twist out of bodeen, but ive been on a dystopian kick lately and this definitely fit the bill. Theme overview plot to survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself george orwell robie. Bodeen first person first person the character tells the story in his or her own words. Ive searched all over the web for anything that can help me understand the ending.

I wonder if the baby seal will starve to death without its mother. However, his mother detests the local megacorporation, trodyn, which offers mason the easiest route to his goal. This study guide consists of approximately 43 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of the raft. The raft that becomes her support contains some useful items, but with the only other survivor almost comatose, it is clear that robie is pretty much on her own. Bodeen, robie mitchell is staying with her aunt on oahu, while taking a break from her life with. Bodeen totally and completely captured me in the raft. Bodeen or stephanie stuvebodeen is an american childrens and young adult book author. The raft was about a 15 year old girl named robie who is visiting her aunt aj in honolulu. Ive been in the mood for some bleak survivalend of the world as we know it reads, and i spied both of these books patiently waiting for their turn to be read on my admittedly overflowing tbr. It seemed more like a cheat than an organic part of the story. Partway through the book, bodeen throws us for a pretty major loop.

She knows the pilot, but on this flight, theres a new copilot named max. I just finished this book and i think im losing it. When i woke up, i felt better, although my left eye was. The raft summary and study guide supersummary, a modern alternative to sparknotes and cliffsnotes, offers highquality study guides for challenging works of literature.

The airplane crashes and the main protagonist ends up having to survive using only a raft and max. The raft free pdf, chm, djvu, rtf free download ebook. She uses this twist to try and add a bit more character depth, but the results arent totally successful. Shes also a very unlucky girl, she thinks, because her internet blinks out for days at a time and her television gets only three channels. Steph bodeen delivers yet another heartpounding ya thriller in the tomb, where kiva and seth must fight to save what remains of human civilization even as they fight their feelings for each other nothing is as it seems these are the first words kivas best friend seth says, after three years of silence. It is not boring because of all of the exciting adventures throughout the whole book from the very beginning to the very end.

The lead is a reaction of robbie looking a mean with a needle in his hand. The raft is a thrilling novel of survival from awardwinning author s. Bodeen this study guide consists of approximately 43 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of the raft. The conflict in this book is pretty obvious, shes in a plane crash and stuck in the middle of the ocean with only a raft and a few kind of useless supplies. But what isnt so obvious are the conflicts inside the main conflict like the fact that she has no food or that the raft has a hole in it, maybe sharks. In these chapters robie was enjoying her flight when all of a sudden the plane was experiencing turbulence. Echoes of time v2 by kevin macleod is licensed under a creative commons attribution license. Once upon a twilight arc tour the raft is a contemporary young adult novel by s.

My eyes were glued to the page and they didnt come off until a few minutes ago when i finished the book, and even then i wanted there to be more. Bodeen for a while, and finally decided that it was time. Bodeen, i want her to know that the raft was an amazing book. She is best known for her young adult science fiction novels the compound and the gardener, and books for children and adults like the small brown dog with a wet pink nose and for her picture books s about elizabeti, a young tanzanian girl. Bodeen paula perez 1st period i choose this movie trailer to present, is to give the image of how the characters and events look like. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. May 25, 2010 inspired imagination overcomes uninspired writing to keep this futuristic story trotting along. Her parents are research biologists and she knows a ton about ocean fish and seabirds.

May 28, 2015 discussion questions of the raft by s. The plane that took robie back to midway had turbulence problem and the plane crashed. The first book in the series, elizabetis doll, won the 1999. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. As problems with their carefully planned existence threaten to destroy their sanctuaryand their sanityeli cant help but wonder if hed rather take his chances outside. The airplane crashes and the main protagonist ends up having to. A simple airplane trip becomes a harrowing struggle for survival in this tense offering from bodeen the gardener. Its not totally unexpected, but it does make the book stand out from the usual survival fare. Robie knows shes a very lucky girl she lives on midway island, after all. I was gobbling up the book and finished it in one sitting. The author pulls you into the book by the first sentence. Inspired imagination overcomes uninspired writing to keep this futuristic story trotting along. Reviews of the the raft thus far with regards to the ebook we now have the raft pdf opinions customers have never however quit the report on the action, or you cannot read it but.

Bodeens third young adult novel, the raft, opens with robie, the protagonist, visiting her aunt in hawaii during one of her many breaks from the small island where robie lives. Suede 1 a type of leather leather finished with a soft, napped surface atoll 2 type of living coral a ringshaped coral albatross 2 type of birdtropical large, webfooted seabirds henna tattoo 5 semi permanent tattoo a semi permanent tattoo thats spiritual admonitions 7 things to dochores. Robbies lastminute flight to the midway atoll proves to be a nightmare when the plane goes down in sharkinfested waters. The last time i read a novel about a character being deserted and left to survive by themselves, i was left majorly disappointed and slightly annoyed but im glad that the raft finished and left me in a fairly positive mood. In the chaos before the flight, robies name wasnt entered in the manifest.

As a survival tale, this is both engaging and full of scary factoids and frightening possibilities. My favorite scene was how the story told us how robie hallucinated about max being there alive with her in the raft, yet he really wasnt because he had died earlier. Robie compares her own situation with the baby seal. When she has to get to midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in hawaii, she gets on the next cargo flight at the last minute. When a frightening experience turns fifteen yearold robies unsupervised hawaii vacation into a nightmare, she boards a plane for home on the midway atoll, a group of pacific islands. Then after a while the turbulence to the point where robie was freaking out. Shes taken the flight from honolulu to the midway atoll, a group of pacific islands w. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Nov 03, 2012 so when it came to the raft by author s. Fifteenyearold robie is on her way home to midway island after vacationing in hono. I loved this book from the very first page to the very last.

Borrowed robie, 15, lives with her family on the midway atoll, a group of islands in the middle of the pacific. Now i only mentioned where i read this book because the raft is about an airplane ride gone wrong. The title of this book is the compound and it was written by s. I chose this book because i couldnt find a book to read so ms. Little wonder, since both she and our older sister, lexie, spent a lot of time taking baths in the big garden tub in moms master suite. Like there was no way that water was a hallucination, because id never tasted.

My favorite part of the book is when robbie freaked out on having to jump out of the plane. One i absolutely loved and the other i really, really did not. Bodeen that follows robie a fifteen year old girl who lives with her research scientist parents on midway island after her plane crash on her flight home from honolulu, hawaii. I like the book because it makes me want to keep reading. Fighting for her life, the copilot max pulls her onto the raft, and thats when the re. Robie was a wonderful protagonist and the entire book felt completely realistic to me. Hanging out in honolulu with her aunt is a far cry from midway atoll where her scientist parents work. Bodeen i have gotta admit that i was a bit hesitant.