What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Dr. Franklin's Island
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SOLVED. YA Mystery/ Thriller: Read around 2004 - Two people are captured or crashed near an island with a mad scientist who gives them the option to breathe under water or fly. [s]
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SBC wrote: "Dr. Franklin's Island"I think so, too. I remember the person turning into something like a stingray and the descriptions of how their thoughts changed to become less human.
Iirc the kids don't know each other but are headed to the same nature conference or volunteer assignment.
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On the Title: I THINK it was called The Mysterious Island, but I've had no luck with searches of that title, because Jules Verne wrote a book of that name.
On the cover: The cover was a deep green or blue with a foresty island. The water had a stingray in it and the sky may have had a bird in it.
On the plot: Two girls were, in some fashion, sent to an island with a mad scientist. I believe they were not together and just met in the circumstances. The main character, if I remember right, crashed her car and sought refuge with a nearby person to call for help but then was captured. I could be mixing this up, however, with other stories that follow that trope. Nontheless she wakes up in some secret facility with no way out.
The mad scientist gave them an option of breathing under water or flying. Over time it became clear he was turning them into a fish or a bird. The main character was a girl and she chose to breathe under water, the mad scientist thought that this was boring and showed a lot of favoritism and care for the other person who chose to fly. I remember the transformation taking a long time and causing a lot of suffering for them both. The main character turned into a stingray specifically. However, she was able to use her swimming ability to escape the island, I believe with help from the bird girl as well they could both escape.
I don't remember the characters names or anything about them as characters, mostly the plot of the book.
On the genre: I only think it's YA because I pictured the girls younger like I was, but I could be wrong on this fact, I read it a very long time ago in late middle school or early highschool, 12 to 14 years old. I personally bet it was in 2003 when I was in eighth grade. The reason I think I could be wrong was because I remember it being a bit vivid in the suffering and details of being slowly mutated into an animal. I believe it is YA, however, because I'm pretty sure I saved money to buy it from a scholastic catalogue or a book fair. However, as an adult that kind of shocks me haha.
It was definitely a darker genre. Zero romance. Scary, mysterious. Plot twists etc. Like, they didn't know when they made the choice of which they would rather have, that they were essentially signing a deal to be a bird or an aquatic animal. It dealt a lot with the friendship and dynamics between the two girls, and how she viewed the mad scientist. It dealt with pain and loneliness, searching for freedom, and anger in an impossible situation. She really found out she liked being a stingray though.