TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Brien,Bill
TI  - Castaway: Disappointment Island, 1907 
T2  - My New Zealand story
SN  - 9781869439910 (pbk.)
U1  - NZ823.3 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Auckland, N.Z.
PB  - Scholastic
KW  - Dundonald (Ship)
KW  - Children's fiction
KW  - Shipwrecks
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Auckland Islands
KW  - Survival
KW  - Orphans
KW  - Diaries
KW  - Castaways
KW  - Auckland Islands (N.Z.)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Children's stories, New Zealand
KW  - local
N1  - Novel for children; Originally published: 2006. (My story)
N2  - Life in the orphanage is often brutal and Sam decides to break away and work his passage to Sydney on a ship. From there he plans to go to America to find his brother. Unfortunately he chooses the ill-fated Dundonald to work his passage. Only weeks out from Sydney the Dundonald is wrecked and Sam is one of 15 sailors cast away on Disappointment Island (part of the Auckland Islands group). Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary
ER  -