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This Carnegie prize winner (for children and young adults) is loosely based on a true event that occurred in 1727, when three men and 8 boys were left on Warrior Stac in the St. Kilda Archipelago off the north coast of Scotland, for the annual bird hunt that provided food for the islanders of Hirta for the next winter. They are marooned there for nine months when the boat that should have picked them up does not return. There is both good and bad about this book. The writing is beautiful, and th
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Read for student book club, then found out it became a Printz honor book for 2020. I liked this book and am glad I read it but it didn't particularly grip me. Based on a true story, it is a little depressing and then in the afterword I find out the true story is even more so. This is a 3.5 rounded up. Not one I think I'll be recommending but a decent read anyway.
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