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Robie is an experienced traveler. She's taken the flight from Honolulu to the Midway Atoll, a group of Pacific islands where her parents live, many times. When she has to get to Midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in Hawaii, she gets on the next cargo flight at the last minute. She knows the pilot, but on this flight, there's a new co-pilot named Max. All systems are go until a storm hits during the flight. The only passenger, Robie doesn't panic until the engine suddenly cuts out and Max shouts at her to put on a life jacket. They are over miles of Pacific Ocean. She sees Max struggle with a raft.
And then . . . she's in the water. Fighting for her life. Max pulls her onto the raft, and that's when the real terror begins. They have no water. Their only food is a bag of Skittles. There are sharks. There is an island. But there's no sign of help on the way.
- Sales Rank: #159085 in Books
- Published on: 2012-08-21
- Released on: 2012-08-21
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.51" h x .93" w x 5.69" l, .74 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 240 pages
From School Library Journal
Gr 6 Up-Step aside Karana (Island of the Blue Dolphins)-teen fiction has a new castaway heroine. Robie loves traveling from the Midway Atoll where she lives with her parents, both researchers, to visit her aunt in Honolulu. She's taken the trip by cargo plane many times by herself, but when a storm hits mid-flight, Robie has to bail out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. With the storm still pouring water over them, the plane's copilot, Max, inflates the emergency raft and drags Robie to safety. On the raft with a man she doesn't know, over hundreds of miles of ocean, her problems really begin. Survival means patching up the leaking raft, staying hydrated, and avoiding the tiger shark that's following her. Eventually she must face the reality that rescue may not be coming. After days and days of torture on the open water, she washes up on the beach of an uninhabited island. Is this island her salvation or her final resting place? Fast-paced and intense, Robie's story has a tight grip on readers up to the very last page. What will stick with them are the choices Robie makes amid her grim reality and her determination to stay alive. There is nothing like losing everything to make you appreciate what you have, like parents who love you and clean drinking water. This book will satisfy anyone who likes a good survival story.-Richelle Roth, Boone County Public Library, KYα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Review
“…readers who pass this novel around will have lots of fun debating exactly what saves her [Robie] in the end.” ―BCCB
“This book will satisfy anyone who likes a good survival story.” ―School Library Journal
“A compelling survival adventure.” ―Kirkus
“...an old-fashioned adventure story.” ―Horn Book
About the Author
S. A. Bodeen's first novel, The Compound, earned her a "Flying Start" from PW and was chosen by YALSA as a Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers. She lives in Oregon with her family.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
One of my 2012 faves!
By Literary Meanderings
That Raft is the story of 15-year-old Robie. She lives with her parents on Midway Atoll in the Hawaiian Islands. An island where the phones & internet can go down for days at a time, there are only 3 channels on cable, everyone knows everyone... and Robie is the only teenager on the entire little island. So, Robie visits her aunt in Honolulu as much as she can. The Raft opens up to one of these visits.
Robie is disappointed when her aunt gets called away for business and she has to cut her visit short. The phones are down at Midway, so Robie boards a service flight (a flight that takes supplies and food items to the island - so it's just the pilot, co-pilot, and Robie on the plane) without letting anyone know. When that plane goes down into the Pacific, Robie and the co-pilot, Max, are the only ones to make it out alive. The pilot sinks right along with the plane. With Max's help, Robie makes it into the yellow life raft he inflated as the plane was going down. The two of them are left with no water, no food but a single bag of Skittles, and nothing but the vast ocean in sight.
Robie asks herself "What's worse than this?" - and soon finds out.
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Let me first list my one complaint about this book. Robie would yammer on and on about these friggin' seabirds! I mean, pages and pages of explanations on their mating habits, egg laying, eggs hatching, birds learning to fly, getting eaten up by sharks, making nests, yadda yadda yadda! I mean, it just went on and on and on. I wanted to skip ahead because it was just too much. It didn't really have a point either.
Okie dokie, Robie was a character that had to grow on me. At first she seemed so frivolous and shallow that I thought I would dislike her, but after the plane went down and she began having to fight for her life, she changed. She grew up a whole lot during the course of the novel. In the end, she may have seemed weak to some, but you could pretty much assume that's because she was delirious. She went days without food and water. She was in the sun for hours on end. She had to witness some pretty terrible things. She was pretty much off her gourd by that time, you know? I have to say, I think she did damn well for a 15-year-old girl. I liked her a lot.
I love love love reading stories about survival. They are some of my most favorites. There were some pretty gross things in this book, but it's the truth of it. You can kiss your inhibitions goodbye when you end up in a situation such as the one in this novel. The protag was very resourceful. She used tactics I would never have even considered. I think the author did a great job of throwing obstacles at the protag and I think she did an equally good job of solving them. Did Robie make some mistakes? Of course! It just made the book all the more realistic to me. Unless you're a survival pro then I don't really see how anyone could be in such a situation and not do things incorrectly. Trial and error.
There was a completely unexpected twist to this book. Total goosebumpy moment when the secret was revealed! I mean, I can't spoil it for you, but it's good. There were little signs here and there but it was so easy to overlook them. Once the revelation is made, all those little details came to the forefront of my mind. It was just like "Oh my gosh! Everything makes perfect sense now!" Anyway, it was just very very surprising and I think it added so much to the story. It changed everything!
Basically, this book is great. I enjoyed it immensely. I read it in just a few hours and I was a very happy gal. It was emotional, edge-of-your-seat, and interesting. It's a dramatic tale of survival and learning to make it on your own when you have no other choice. Robie was a wonderful protagonist and the entire book felt completely realistic to me. S.A. Bodeen is a wonderful writer; descriptive and beautiful. I loved this book from the very first page to the very last. I can even say I learned a thing or two from it! That Raft is a new addition to my favorites list. :)
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
The Raft
By Mundie Moms & Mundie Kids Book Reviews
3.5 stars
No joke, I have a fear of flying over the ocean. I swear if I ever had to do that I'd 1), need to sedated, because I wouldn't be able to sit that long, and 2), I would be beyond paranoid that the plane I would on would crash into the ocean. Don't ask me why I have this fear, because I've never flown over the ocean and you'd think flying over the ocean would be safer than flying over the mountains. Regardless, my fear becomes Robie's nightmare in The RAFT.
The Raft is a book I've been looking forward to reading. I had been hearing some rave reviews about it, and I was really looking forward to reading about Robie and her ocean adventure (if you can call it that). When I sat down to read it, I felt the beginning was a little slow for me, and I was just reading a book vs connecting to it, but I totally got was S.A. Bodeen was doing, and when I got to a crucial moment in the book, I realized she had set up Robie's story perfectly. What she did was introduce me to the remote island life Robie has grown accustom to, what made her hop a plane and go visit her Aunt on the main island, and why she was able to hop on the cargo plane heading back to the island where her parents were at. If she hadn't done all that, it wouldn't be as realistic as to why a teenager was allowed to get a plane bound to a remote island without having to check in and without the permission of her Aunt or parents. Plus, that last element added a real sense of fear in Robie when she realizes she's drifting alone in the middle of the ocean and no one has any idea where in the world she's at (literally).
Robie is an amazing kid! She's smart, resourceful and mentally tough, which play a key role in her survival in this story. She deals with some pretty scary stuff, and some mentally challenging things that no one should have to deal with. There's more than just being stuck in the middle of the ocean in a little raft that happens in this book. It's the other things that really add to the suspense of the over all storyline. I won't tell you what those things are, as that would ruin part of the dramatic storyline. Honestly, if I was in Robie's position I'd want to just lay in the fetal position and cry.... though I'd hope I'd have the strength and courage she does and to do what she did.
S.A. Bodeen did a remarkable job at taking me along with Robie on an adventure of survival, and what was real and what wasn't. I have to give her huge props for doing what she did with Robie's story. She created a story that was full of danger, suspense, real fear and whole lot of other emotions. What Robie dwelt with is exactly one of the things I fear, being stuck in the middle of the ocean in a little raft all by yourself when sharks come. Go ahead and start bitting your nails now, because during this scene my adrenaline started pumping for Robie. Not only did I feel the fear Robie did, but being a Mom, I started doing the mental freak out of what in the world would I do if she were my daughter. Though this book is short, it is one action packed, sit on the edge of your seat and bite your nails kind of read. It's fast paced and once that plane went down, it was a book I couldn't stop reading.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A captivating and well crafted novel...difficult to put down
By D. Blankenship
This was one of those novels that caught me completely off guard. It was a rather random pull from the library shelf; a quick glance and I told myself `why not.' I ad not idea what I was getting into here and had no idea that this work is considered a YA novel. Now lucky for me I rather like a lot of the current and past YA novels and actually feel that many of them are better written that many of the adult reads available. And that was the case with this book. it had me hooked from page one and I had difficulty putting it down...well, truth be told, I did not put it down until the last page was turned a few hours later.
The premise of the story is not all that original (what truly is original these days when you think about it?) A young girl, age 15 is left adrift in a raft in the middle of the Pacific Ocean after the plane she is on crashes. This is the story of pure survival and I do like a good survival book. Now I say that the premise is not original but I must say that the skill in which the author approached her subject most certainly is and she pulls it off well.
The author has done a wonderful job in letting her protagonist grow as the novel grew. I will be honest and tell you that in the beginning I was not overly fond of this girl. She was quite self centered and immature ...hey, she was sort of a typical 15 year old girl of today. This changed as the story advanced and by the end of the book the author gave us a young and rather mature young lady; a young lady a person could be proud to know.
This author's descriptive abilities are great. I will tell you right now that when it comes to the subject of nature that the author is quite detailed so it you do not like descriptions of birds, animals and the environment then you might have to do some `skip reading.' I personally eat this sort of thing up so I was quite in my reading element here.
I found nothing in this work that was unrealistic and in fact the author could be quite brutally pragmatic with her descriptions and her story line. There was nothing fake or unbelievable about this story at all. I will say that the end of the story is absolutely haunting...I mean...whose to say?
This is most certainly one of those cross over novels...yes, it is a YA but I dare say that few adults will read this and not appreciate not only the story but the skill this author obviously possesses. I very much recommend this one.
This was a library find.
Don Blankenship
The Ozarks
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