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This is a really excellent young adult novel--neat for adults, too! Could you have done as well as young Phillip if YOU'D been stranded on a tiny island in the Caribbean?

From back cover: Shipwrecked! All his life Phillip had looked down upon black-skinned people. Now,suddenly, he was a refugee from a fatal shipwreck, and dependent on an extraordinary West Indain named Timothy. There were just the two of them cast upon the barren little Carribean Island...three if you counted Stew Cat...and a crack on the head had left Phillip blind.

Great book! I read this book to my family during our vacation last year. We all loved it. A boy and a man are shipwrecked together in the caribbean during WW2 and they learn to "see" each other differently and appreciate each other's differences and knowledge. There is also a sequel.

A snob is a refugee from a ship wreck in the caribbean. With just two people on the island. Phillip (the snob) will find out what a true companion is. Growing up and surviving!