Review: Shipwrecked: Dragon Island by Carey Fessler
A remote, tropical island, “rads” who have mutation magic, and huge, man-eating Varanus dragons…these make a terrifying trifecta in Carey Fessler’s action-packed middle-grade adventure, Shipwrecked: Dragon Island.
Kidnapped by a mutant submarine crew, twelve-year-old Aussie cousins, Emma and Scott, along with sixteen-year-old Harrison, escape their captors by swimming to a remote – and what appears to be – deserted tropical island. Emma becomes separated from the two boys as they search for drinking water but soon finds herself stumbling over Brock, one of the mutant crewman from the submarine from whom they had escaped.
Reluctantly joining forces, the two […]
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