The life of Robinson Crusoe is a great adventure story from his shipwreck on an island off the coast of South America to his discovery of a fellow human being named Friday, to their escape from cannibals.

In the year 2083, five fourteen-year-olds who were deprived by chance of the opportunity to continue their educations reenact Scott's 1910-1913 expedition to the South Pole as contestants on a reality television show, secretly aided by a Department of Entertainment employee.

When Brooke, Eva, Nate, and Jay take a nighttime sail off the Florida coast, they are shipwrecked by a storm an dbecome castaways on a harsh island.

After Sarah's dad remarries, he and her stepmom decide to take the whole family on a special vacation in order to break the ice and have everyone get to know one another. They'll fly to Tahiti, charter a boat, and go sailing for a few days. It'll be an adventure, right? Wrong. Dead wrong.

"On the remote isle of Rosevear, Mira, like her mother before her, is a wrecker, one of the seven on the rope who swim out to shipwrecks to plunder them. Mira's job is to rescue survivors, if there are any. After all, she never feels the cold of the frigid ocean waters and the waves seem to sing to her soul. But the people of Rosevear never admit the truth: that they set the beacons themselves to lure ships into the rocks. When the Council watch lays...

When a brother and sister are marooned on a tiny island for three days they must learn to combat hunger, thirst, exposure, fright, and, most of all they must learn to depend on each other.

An abridged version of the story that relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they imaginatively adapt to life on an island with abundant animal and plant life.