Island of the Blue Dolphins

I read Island of the Blue Dolphins when I was in fifth or sixth grade, so I thought I would read it to my class.  I was a little worried because the main character is a girl, and most of my class is boys, but everyone seemed to really enjoy the book.  The whole class participated in our daily discussions about the book.  

Here is what Braedon had to say about Island of the Blue Dolphins:

Island of the Blue Dolphins is about a girl that was left behind on an island. It is called the island of the blue dolphins. She was about 18 when she was left behind. The way that she was left behind was her brother went back to the village to get his fishing pole so he did not starve to death on the ocean. So his sister was on the boat and they were a half a mile out and she found out her brother was not on the ship so she jumped off the ship and swam back to the Island. By the time she was there her brother was on the shore thinking he was going to be the only one on the Island then his sister showed up out of the water.

     That same day they built a house and stayed in it thinking how they were going to leave the Island of the blue dolphins. That night while the sister was sleeping the brother snuck out to go get a canoe but, the he did not make it very far he was killed by the wild dogs. That next morning the sister woke up and found out that the brother was not there so she went to look for him and found out that he was dead. So she carried him back to her home. She made a promise to her self that she would kill all the wild dogs. She was rescued.