Book details

  • Genre:children's fiction
  • Sub-genre:Action & Adventure / General
  • Age Range (years):7 - 12
  • Language:English
  • Series Title:I don't have a series title yet
  • Series Number:1
  • Pages:132
  • eBook ISBN:9798317851651

The Island's Island

By Pat Taylor Ellison

Overview


Ten-year-old Lilly is on vacation with her parents and tutor on a Greek island, eagerly awaiting the arrival of their long-time family-friends to arrive. When they arrive, Lilly sets off with Lydia and Iason to explore their favorite place, a tiny island just off the shore of their vacation island, where they stumble upon a secret tunnel they had never noticed before. They keep their discovery a secret and go back the next day with food and flashlights to go on an adventure. Together they explore the tunnel, having no idea that it was built during a war to help hide people and care for their wounds. The trio moves deeper into the tunnel, discovers a door, and quickly finds themselves trapped on the other side. With limited options, they continue further into the tunnel only to find an exit guarded by uniformed men. Iason gets captured, and it's up to Lilly and Lydia to find more supplies, free Iason, and navigate their way back through the tunnel.
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Description


Ten-year-old Lilly is on vacation with her parents and tutor on a Greek island, eagerly awaiting the arrival of their long-time family-friends to arrive. When they arrive, Lilly sets off with Lydia and Iason to explore their favorite place, a tiny island just off the shore of their vacation island, where they stumble upon a secret tunnel they had never noticed before. An altercation with their parents leads them to keep their tunnel a secret and go back the next day with food and flashlights to go on an adventure. Together they explore the tunnel, having no idea that it was built during a war to help hide people and care for their wounds. The trio moves deeper into the tunnel, discovers a door, and quickly finds themselves trapped on the other side. With limited options, they continue further into the tunnel only to find an exit guarded by uniformed men. Iason gets captured, and it's up to Lilly and Lydia to find more supplies, free Iason, and navigate their way back through the tunnel. During this time, their parents are thrown into a panic trying to find their children. The entire island is searching high and low until two parents stumble upon the tunnel just as an explosion causes a partial collapse of the passage—but it's up to the kids to set everything back to how it was.
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About The Author


Dr. Pat Taylor Ellison is a teacher, researcher, learning developer, and funeral celebrant from Minneapolis, Minnesota. At the ages of 23 and 24, she lived in Paris, France, and Thessaloniki, Greece, but now she resides in Fargo, North Dakota, with her husband. Their house is just down the street from their daughter, her husband, two grandsons, and their two dogs, Barbara and Twyla. Dr. Ellison is very grateful to the many people who gave her the time and space to write this story—her friends, co-workers at Church Innovations Institute, the kind people at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey, and her family, who had to do without her while she was working hard to write the books. She also thanks the many children who read the first book in this series before anyone else and told her exactly what worked and what didn't. They were all a fantastic help.
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