Scott O’Dell Books In Order

Island of the Blue Dolphins Books In Order

  1. Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960)
  2. Zia (1976)

Seven Serpents Books In Order

  1. The Captive (1979)
  2. The Feathered Serpent (1981)
  3. The Amethyst Ring (1983)

Novels

  1. Hill Of The Hawk (1947)
  2. Journey to Jericho (1964)
  3. The King’s Fifth (1966)
  4. The Black Pearl (1967)
  5. Dark Canoe (1968)
  6. Sing Down the Moon (1970)
  7. The Treasure of Topo-El-Bampo (1972)
  8. The Cruise of the Arctic Star (1973)
  9. Child of Fire (1974)
  10. The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt By Day (1975)
  11. The 290 (1976)
  12. Carlota (1977)
  13. The Daughter of Don Saturnino (1978)
  14. Kathleen, Please Come Home (1978)
  15. Sarah Bishop (1980)
  16. The Spanish Smile (1982)
  17. The Castle in the Sea (1983)
  18. Alexandra (1984)
  19. Streams to the River, River to the Sea (1986)
  20. The Road to Damietta (1987)
  21. The Serpent Never Sleeps (1987)
  22. Black Star, Bright Dawn (1988)
  23. My Name Is Not Angelica (1989)
  24. Thunder Rolling In the Mountains (1992)
  25. Venus Among the Fishes (1995)

Omnibus

  1. A Newbery Collection boxed set (2011)
  2. A Newbery Honor Collection boxed set (2012)

Non fiction

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Scott O’Dell Books Overview

Island of the Blue Dolphins

The gripping story of young Karana, who survives by herself for eighteen years on a deserted island off the California coast. /Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. com Review /Source Content Scott O’Dell won the Newbery Medal for Island of the Blue Dolphins in 1961, and in 1976 the Children’s Literature Association named this riveting story one of the 10 best American children’s books of the past 200 years. O’Dell was inspired by the real life story of a 12 year old American Indian girl, Karana. The author based his book on the life of this remarkable young woman who, during the evacuation of Ghalas at an island off the coast of California, jumped ship to stay with her young brother who had been abandoned on the island. He died shortly thereafter, and Karana fended for herself on the island for 18 years.

O’Dell tells the miraculous story of how Karana forages on land and in the ocean, clothes herself in a green cormorant skirt and an otter cape on special occasions, and secures shelter. Perhaps even more startlingly, she finds strength and serenity living alone on the island. This beautiful edition of Island of the Blue Dolphins is enriched with 12 full page watercolor paintings by Ted Lewin, illustrator of more than 100 children’s books, including Ali, Child of the Desert. A gripping story of battling wild dogs and sea elephants, this simply told, suspenseful tale of survival is also an uplifting adventure of the spirit. Ages 9 to 12

Zia

Whatever happened to Karana of the Island of the Blue Dolphins? When 14 year old Zia and her brother Mando find a boat cast up on the beach near Santa Barbara, they are determined to make the voyage out to the far island, where their aunt Karana had been left behind nearly 18 years before. So Zia and Mando set sail on a journey filled with danger and adventure.

The Captive

As part of a Spanish expedition to the New World, a Jesuit seminarian witnesses the enslavement and exploitation of the Mayas and is seduced by greed and ambition.

Hill Of The Hawk

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The King’s Fifth

There were seven of them when they left the summer camp of Coronado’s army and struck out into that unknown land, which is now our great Southwest, to find the golden cities of Cibola. Writing in his cell during the days of his trial for withholding the King’s Fifth, or royal share of treasure, Esteban de Sandoval, a young mapmaker, recalls all that happened since they left. The greedy and gold-hungry Captain Mendoza led the party, with an Indian girl, Zia, as a guide, on a hazardous expedition. For Esteban it was all an unbelievable adventure until the moment when he held in his hand a piece of the desired gold and for the first time felt its awful power. ‘Motivations and characterizations are finely drawn…
in this excellent novel of the sixteenth century which brings to life people and events.’ – Library Journal, starred review ‘What a day to celebrate – the day an author who has written a magnificent book comes through with another on which is equally magnificent! Scott O’Dell is the author, The King’s Fifth is the book he has created to join his multiple prize winner Island of the Blue Dolphins among the greats on young people’s bookshelves…
It is the story of two journeys…
together they make for a magnificent book.’ – Publishers Weekly ‘Compelling, deeply felt story of a boy who, almost too late, comes to realize the awful cost of the lust for gold in honor and human life.’ – Booklist

The Black Pearl

Old Salazar held the pearl to the light and tumed it around and around. He gave it to his son, who had found the pearl in the underwater cave of the lagoon.

‘You have in your hand the Pearl of the Universe, the Paragon of Pearls, the Great Pearl of Heaven!’ he said.

When the pearl merchants wouldn’t meet his price, Blas Salazar presented the fabulous gem to the Madonna of the church of La Paz. ‘The House of Salazar shall be favored in heaven, now and forever,’ he proudly proclaimed and firmly believed.

But there were others who believed a curse had surely been brought down upon Salazar and Son and their fleet, for the Manat Diablo, monster devilfish, would reclaim his treasure.

And it was young Ramon who would have to undo the evil he had begun.

Dark Canoe

THERE IS A THIN LINE BETWEEN GENIUS AND MADNESS.

When young Nathan sails with his older brothers in search of a lost treasure ship, he is expected to do exactly as they tell him. But when one of his brothers mysteriously dies and the other declares he is Captain Ahab straight out of Moby Dick, Nathan worries about what orders he might have to carry out.

Then a mysterious object appears in the bay that seems to have floated out of the very pages of Moby Dick. Something very strange is happening at sea, but how…
and why?

‘Figures and events from Moby Dick are given eerie, shadowy counterparts…
So quietly, so persuasively is this accomplished that when Ishmael’s ocean going coffin drifts out of Melville’s seas in O’Dell’s, it carries no shock for either Nathan or the reader.’
Washington Post Book World

Sing Down the Moon

The Navajo tribe’s forced march from their homeland to Fort Sumner by white soldiers and settlers is dramatically and courageously told by young Bright Morning. The Spanish Slavers were an ever present threat to the Navaho way of life. One lovely spring day, fourteen year old Bright Morning and her friend Running Bird took their sheep to pasture. The sky was clear blue against the red buttes of the Canyon de Chelly, and the fields and orchards of the Navahos promised a rich harvest. Bright Morning was happy as she gazed across the beautiful valley that was the home of her tribe. She turned when Black Dog barked, and it was then that she saw the Spanish slavers riding straight toward her.

The Cruise of the Arctic Star

In The Cruise of the Arctic Star, Scott O’Dell takes a voyage up the length of the California coast in his cedar hulled offshore cruiser named Arctic Star. With his wife Elizabeth along as skilled navigator and cook, a friend Del as cohort and deckhand, and an unpredictable hired hand named Rodney Lambert, the crew journeys up the coast and experiences first hand the delights and drama of life at sea along this beautiful shoreline. Along the way, the author relates the colorful narratives of California’s past through the stories of men and women like Cabrillo, Viscaino, Junipero Serra, Kate Sessions, Kit Carson, Jedediah Smith and many more. Drawing from journals of other notable visitors like Richard Henry Dana, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Sir Francis Drake, readers are given a window into life in California hundreds of years ago.

The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt By Day

Tom Barton and his Uncle Jack live on the edge of danger, smuggling goods under the very nose of the king’s searchers. Shrewd, brave, desperate at times, they make run after run across the Channel, braving rough seas, heavy winds, and a growing restlessness among their countrymen. All Europe is aflame with the writing and preaching of Martin Luther. Tom and his uncle come into contact with another man, William Tyndale, whose work and prayer is to put an English Bible into the hands of the common people. While Uncle Jack sees only the profit in a religious Reformation, it is Tom who sees in Tyndale’s work the dawning of a new age and a new way of life for himself and England. William Tyndale was The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt By Day. Hunted, hated by many, a fugitive in several countries, this humble man’s pen changed the course of history. For modern Christians, he is the symbol of scholarship and courage, determination and meekness. For Tom Barton, he was father and friend, teacher and comforter, and the first true testimony of Christ in a godless age.

The 290

Jim Lynne is idly playing darts in Liverpool when his brother, Ted, calls him over to a table to ask a question about the ship that he is working on. It seems the ship, enigmatically named The 290, is not the cargo ship that people are saying it is. Whatever its purpose, it is certainly built for speed. But Jim thinks he knows that purpose: it is being built for the Confederate navy.

And so launches the story of the intertwined fates of a ship and a boy. The ship would go down in history as one of the most famous vessels of the Civil War. Originally The 290, she would come to be known as the Alabama. Jim, whose father is a slave trader, will have to reconcile his own hatred for slavery with his love for the ship he made and the captain who sails her. Destiny will give him a chance to do just that…

‘Once again Scott O’Dell is able to refract universal themes of liberty and self awareness through history’s prism.’
School Library Journal

‘The author displays his distinctive gifts for distilling significance from historical matter and for dealing with the sea…
. With lively conversation and with increasing tension, from confrontations at sea and aboard Jim’s ship, the author crisply tells the story, skillfully integrating historical elements…
. Immediately captures the reader’s interest.’ Horn Book

Carlota

A young girl relates her feelings and experiences as a participant in the battle of San Pasqual during the last days of the war between Califor nians and Americans. ‘Multidim ensional, masterfully crafted, the novel is compelling in its powerful yet restrained emotional intensity.’ Horn Book

Sarah Bishop

The tale of a girl’s strength and courage during the American Revolution, written by the Newbery Medal winning author of Island of the Blue Dolphins. ‘Readers will especially relish Sarah’s fierce independence.’ School Library Journal.

The Spanish Smile

Lucinda lived like a princess on her father’s private island off the coast of California, Isla del Oro. But she was really a prisoner, shut off from the world, never allowed off the island. Then Christopher Dawson, a young archeologist, came to the island and into her life. And Lucinda began to realize the horrifying truth about the island…
and about her father.

The Castle in the Sea

When Lucinda’s wealthy and powerful father dies, she inherits the Isla del Oro, a small island off the coast of California, where everything is as it was when her grandfather first discovered it a century before. Lucinda is now the wealthiest girl in the world but her guardian forbids her to leave the island, and strange things begin to happen to Lucinda, until she begins to think someone is trying to kill her. But who? Her mysterious guardian? Her handsome fiance? Or the island doctor?

Alexandra

For many generations, the men in Alexandra‘s family have been sponge divers first on the Greek island of Kalymnos and now in the Florida village of Tarpon Springs. Diving has always been considered a man’s job by Alexandra‘s family dangerous and demanding. But when tragedy strikes, Alexandra decides to become a sponge diver herself despite her family’s objections. And she learns that as dangerous as the underwater world can be, there are always more dangers waiting on shore…

Streams to the River, River to the Sea

Scagawea, a Shashone Indian, guided and interpreted for explorers Lewis and Clarke as they traveled up the Mississippi, but she had adventures long before that one, like the time she was captured by the Minnetarees, and taken away from her family and everything that she knew and loved…
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The Road to Damietta

Rich in the atmosphere of thirteenth century Italy, The Road to Damietta offers through Ricca di Montanaro’s eyes a new perspective on the man who became the famous Saint Francis of Assisi, the guileless, joyous man who praised the oneness of nature and sought to bring the world into harmony. Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace, he said. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.

Black Star, Bright Dawn

Most young girls’ experiences never involve hunting bearded seals on the ice, even within the Alaskan Eskimo culture. In Scott O’Dell’s gripping novel, Bright Dawn is an exception. In her father’s eyes, she became his son’s replacement ever since her brother drowned. When Bright Dawn is 18 years old, her father, recently injured, insists that she take his place in the Iditarod, the famous Alaskan dogsled race covering more than a thousand miles between Anchorage and Nome. Unflinching, yet trembling in her mukluks, she faces her challenge head on. Bright Dawn proves herself to be a strong, courageous hero*ine crossing rivers, mountain ranges, and vast stretches of frozen tundra with her team of dogs, including the lead Black Star. While the rush of wind and relentless, blinding stretches of ice are exhilarating, the dangers involved make Bright Dawn realize that it’s not only the race, but her life that she’s entrusting to her team of dogs. O’Dell, author of the Newbery Award winning Island of the Blue Dolphins, has created an intense, suspenseful, clearly written adventure story that’s sure to capture the imagination of young readers and take them for a blustery ride. Ages 9 to 12. 103 pages.

My Name Is Not Angelica

The planter who buys you will put you to work in his household or in the sugar cane fields. In the fields, under the hot sun, slaves don’t last long, perhaps a year. So show your white teeth, Raisha, smile a lot, and don’t say anything unless you’re asked. Snatched from her home in Africa, sixteen year old Raisha begins her new life on the island of St. John’s as a slave on Jost van Prok’s plantation. Even as a sheltered house servant, Raisha cannot ignore the terrible suffering of other slaves. But is she willing to risk her life to help a group of runaways?This is a compelling account of the great slave rebellion of 1733, and of one daring young woman’s suffering, strength, and ultimate triumph of will. This is Raisha’s story.

Thunder Rolling In the Mountains

Sound of Running Feet, daughter of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, narrates this tale of her tribe’s fate, starting from her first encounter with white people in 1877. K. PW. SLJ. AB.

Venus Among the Fishes

Killer whales are invading the peaceful dolphin territory of Glacier Strait. Coral and her brother Snapper are sent from their herd to search for their older brother, and safer waters. Coral’s journey is treacherous as she encounters vicious sharks and whales and hazardous fishing nets. But the greatest danger of all comes when Coral confronts the humans and the terror of captivity.

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