The emotions of the characters throughout the whole book were pulled just as tautly as they could be-stuck on the boat together, they had no way to escape from each other, so there was no chance of distance bringing diffusion. The boys manage to survive for a time, but when Dylan is terribly injured, Ben must make a horrible decision. Almost immediately after that, a storm drives the boat onto a deserted island. The older boy, Ben (15), was furious.Īnd so there they are on the boat, with Ben hating his father, and his father being unhelpfully unsympathetic (being grief-stricken), and little Gerry missing his mama so badly (sniff), and then one day the father is no longer on the boat. Here's how they felt-the two younger ones (11 year old Dylan and 5 year old Gerry) were sad and unenthusiastic. But he didn't ask his sons how they felt about this. They are on the boat because the mother died in a car accident (sniff) and the father sold their house and decided to spend the year sailing in the Bahamas. Herlong (2008, Viking, YA, 288 pages), is the story of three boys and their father on a boat in the Bahamas. There I was about an hour ago, ready to launch back into reading for the 48 Reading Challenge after sundry distractions, when I realized to my dismay that I was downstairs, and all three books that I was in the middle of were upstairs.
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