5/24/2023 0 Comments The island by olivia levez![]() ![]() With chess, more so than any other sport/game, you can plan your moves in advance, map out a course for success and learn to understand how that success or failure directly relates to the choices you make. Around that time, chess was being introduced into inner city schools as a way to teach underprivileged children skills that would translate into their lives. ![]() ![]() I remember back in the early 1980’s watching a piece on 60 Minutes about a chess club in a Harlem grade school. ![]() So when she discovers another survivor on the island, will it bring out the worst in her again? Or will it finally help her to see that her future is worth fighting for?Ī gripping and thoughtful story about a girl determined to survive against all odds and find the courage to become the person she wants to be. Survival is hard and so is being honest with herself. And when she is there she also has to think about the past. "Echoing O’Dell’s Island of the Blue Dolphins, Levez’s story will keep readers riveted as determined, hard-edged Frances fights to survive."Īs part of an Outward Bound” style treatment for young people who’ve committed crimes, Frances finds herself on a plane to a remote village where she will do community service in exchange for staying out of juvenile detention.īut an accident leaves her alone on a small island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. ![]()
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