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* AmbiguousEnding: The book ends with [[spoiler: Jinny taking Loo off the island on the boat, hoping to find someone who can treat his snake bite. What comes of this is never shown, so it is unknown whether Loo got the treatment in time or died.]]
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* EmpathicEnvironment: [[spoiler: When Jinny refuses to leave the island, things begin to change. For example, the shapes in the sky that appear every morning grow more muddled, it snows for the first time (explaining the line, "Any more, the sky might fall"), and the animals become less friendly, leading to Loo being bitten by a snake.]]
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Out in the sea, there is an island surrounded by fog. On this island, there live nine children, each one a year older than the other. To these kids, this island is paradise. The kids are entirely self-sufficient, they can do whatever they want, eat whatever they like, and have not a single care in the world. Plus, there are no changes made that effect their happiness.
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Out in the sea, there is an island surrounded by fog. On this island, there live nine children, each one a year older than the other. To these kids, this island is paradise. The kids are entirely self-sufficient, they can do whatever they want, eat whatever they like, and have not a single care in the world. Plus, there are no changes made that effect affect their happiness.
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* AdultFear: Jinny gets hit with this at the end of the book [[spoiler:twice. First, when Ess runs off in the middle of a rainstorm to find her bracelet. Jinny fears she went up to the rocks at the prairie, and might slip and fall off them into the sea.]]
** [[spoiler:The second time is when, shortly after they find Jinny, they realize Loo has run off. They find him staring down a snake, and he gets bitten.]]
** [[spoiler:The second time is when, shortly after they find Jinny, they realize Loo has run off. They find him staring down a snake, and he gets bitten.]]
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* TheGhost: Abigail. She lived on the island long before everyone else, and left before any of the cast showed up. They only know she was there because of the annotations she left in all the books in the reading cabin.
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* TheGhost: Abigail. She lived on the island long before everyone else, and left before any of the cast showed up. They only know she was there because of the annotations she left in all the books in the reading cabin.cabin[[spoiler:, and the letter she wrote that was hidden in-between the cushions of the reading cabin's chair]].
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''"Nine on an island, orphans all,''\\
''Any more, the sky might fall."''
''Any more, the sky might fall."''
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* AdultFear: Jinny gets hit with this at the end of the book [[spoiler:twice. First, when Ess runs off in the middle of a rainstorm to find her bracelet. Jinny fears she went up to the rocks at the prairie, and might slip and fall off them into the sea.]]
** [[spoiler:The second time is when, shortly after they find Jinny, they realize Loo has run off. They find him staring down a snake, and he gets bitten.]]
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* CallARabbitASmeerp: The kids on the island have their own names for things. For example, oysters are called "Ersters", and nights are known as "Sleeps"
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* CallARabbitASmeerp: The kids on the island have their own names for things. For example, oysters are called "Ersters", and nights are known as "Sleeps""Sleeps", and Octopus is called "inkfish".
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* CallARabbitASmeerp: The kids on the island have their own names for things. For example, oysters are called "Ersters", and nights are known as "Sleeps"
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* MysteriousMist: The island is surrounded in perpetual mist, blocking the view of anything outside.
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* TheGhost: Abigail. She lived on the island long before everyone else, and left before any of the cast showed up. They only know she was there because of the annotations she left in all the books in the reading cabin.
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* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:Jinny refuses to leave the island when her time comes, going so far as to first try to push the boat out to sea, and ultimately dragging it onto the beach. The other kids are not happy about this, and don't really know what to make of it.]]
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* ComingOfAge: The story is this for Jinny.
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''Orphan Island'' is a ComingOfAge [[FantasyLiterature Fantasy Novel]] by Laurel Snyder.
Out in the sea, there is an island surrounded by fog. On this island, there live nine children, each one a year older than the other. To these kids, this island is paradise. The kids are entirely self-sufficient, they can do whatever they want, eat whatever they like, and have not a single care in the world. Plus, there are no changes made that effect their happiness.
Well, almost nothing anyway.
Once every year, a small green boat arrives on the island, bringing with it a small child to live there. Things is, there can only be nine children at a time on the island. There's even a poem about it.
So whenever the boat drops off a new kid, the oldest kid needs to get on the boat and leave the island for good. And the last person to leave was Deen, so now, [[TheProtagonist Jinny]] is the new Elder of the island. So now, Jinny has to make sure the new arrival, Ess, learns all she needs to to look after herself, and that Ben, the next in line to be Elder, knows all he has to for when Jinny's time to leave comes in a year.
The book was published on May 30th, 2017.
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!!''Orphan Island'' contains examples of:
* PassingTheTorch: Whenever the oldest kid on the island leaves on the boat, the second-oldest kid becomes the new Elder. Jinny becomes the new Elder when Deen leaves.
* ThePlace: The island the book is set on. It's never called Orphan Island, but it is indeed an island.
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Out in the sea, there is an island surrounded by fog. On this island, there live nine children, each one a year older than the other. To these kids, this island is paradise. The kids are entirely self-sufficient, they can do whatever they want, eat whatever they like, and have not a single care in the world. Plus, there are no changes made that effect their happiness.
Well, almost nothing anyway.
Once every year, a small green boat arrives on the island, bringing with it a small child to live there. Things is, there can only be nine children at a time on the island. There's even a poem about it.
So whenever the boat drops off a new kid, the oldest kid needs to get on the boat and leave the island for good. And the last person to leave was Deen, so now, [[TheProtagonist Jinny]] is the new Elder of the island. So now, Jinny has to make sure the new arrival, Ess, learns all she needs to to look after herself, and that Ben, the next in line to be Elder, knows all he has to for when Jinny's time to leave comes in a year.
The book was published on May 30th, 2017.
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!!''Orphan Island'' contains examples of:
* PassingTheTorch: Whenever the oldest kid on the island leaves on the boat, the second-oldest kid becomes the new Elder. Jinny becomes the new Elder when Deen leaves.
* ThePlace: The island the book is set on. It's never called Orphan Island, but it is indeed an island.
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