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Today I‘ve got two ocean survival stories to recommend.

Gary Paulson is most famous for Hatchet, and The Voyage of the Frog is another story of a boy on his own. David takes a sailboat out and is caught by a storm that carries him far off course.

In Deep Water, Julie and her dad run a scuba diving business and she takes two clients down off the coast of Alabama. When they return to the surface, the boat is gone.

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Young David‘s Uncle Owen is dying and asks David to take his twenty-two foot fiberglass FROG out to sea upon Owen‘s death, and scatter his ashes upon the water. His journey is fraught with storms/high winds, hunger and thirst, and the loneliness of survival. Well-written and you felt like you were experiencing it all as David was.

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Not my favorite Paulsen book. Stay on dry land, Gary.