Island of the Blue Dolphins Free Audiobook Download by Scott O'Dell

I listened to this book on my long car ride and felt very nostalgic. The imagery was great, it felt like I was sitting by the fire after staying up too late with my parents telling me stories about their adventures in the 1800s.

One day, a young girl is swimming in the ocean when she is suddenly swept away by a wave and taken to an island where she finds herself living on her own. The girl, Auea, begins to live on this island with the help of her pet raccoon and learns to hunt for food. Auea's mother had told her stories of how different people came to live on the island, who they were, how they were all alone until they could find each other again. One day Auea meets a boy and sends him away because she doesn't know what else to do with him. When he comes back she realizes that he is her father who passed away many years ago.

The Island of the Blue Dolphins is set in 1853 in the San Francisco Bay Area. A young native boy named Karo, a member of the Ohlone tribe, washes ashore on what he believes to be an island filled with riches that would help his village. He has no way of getting back home so he wanders through the island for days. During his travels, he falls in love with Spaniard girl named Sola who becomes his companion and eventually wife.

In an interview, the author, Scott O'Dell, explained that he wanted to create a character who was both "an animal and fully human" and "a creature in a world of creatures." He wanted to create a story with no protagonist.

The book is set in 1876. A Spanish ship washes up on the beach and a young girl named Karana falls off, is rescued by a sailor, and taken onto the ship as 'a gift'. She befriends a dog and soon realizes that she has been kidnapped, but finds some comfort in her new surroundings.

Island of the Blue Dolphins is a young adult novel written by Scott O'Dell in 1962. The novel follows a young girl who, after her family's boat gets wrecked at sea, is taken as a captive on a small island inhabited only by women and their children. When she grows up she sets off to find help, but never returns to her world.