Zia is the sequel to the Newbery-winning The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell. If you have read and enjoyed that book, you’ll like Zia as well.
Zia is Karana’s 14 year old niece, who desperately wants to find out what happened to her aunt. Along with her brother, she first heads out alone, but then realizes she will need help from others if she is to find her aunt on the island. Many of you already may know this, but these stories are based on real events. “It is based on the true story of Juana María, the “Lone Woman of San Nicolas,” a Nicoleño Indian marooned for 18 years on San Nicolas Island off the California coast.” (Wikipedia)
This makes both stories so much more fascinating. Of course, it also helps that Scott O’Dell is such an amazing writer. In both books, he writes in first person as the female character. He really does a convincing job of it! I highly recommend both books as well as The Black Pearl, which I read earlier this year. I’d like to read more of O’Dell in the future, so if you can recommend another title, I’d appreciate it.
1976, 179 pp.
Rating: 4
I’ll have to read The Island of the Blue Dolphin next year, people are raving about it all over the blogosphere. And with a sequel? Even better.
Scott O’Dell was one of my favorites when I was younger. I recently re-read Sing Down the Moon, which is one I would definitely recommend, and despite having read it forever ago and having a poor memory for books read forever ago, I seem to remember loving Thunder Rolling in the Mountains, too. I’m also a sucker for books with neat-sounding titles, and these two definitely fit the bill! =D
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