Escape

In the third book of Gordon Korman's "Island Trilogy," six young protagonists, initially sent on a character-building boat trip for various reasons, find themselves shipwrecked and marooned on a remote Pacific island. This installment intensifies the survival stakes as the group, already battling starvation and the elements, discovers they are not alone and one of their own is gravely injured. The story explores themes of teamwork, resilience, and overcoming personal differences under extreme pressure, as Nick, J.J., Will, Lyssa, Charla, and Ian must put aside their past conflicts to find a way off the island before it's too late.

Six kids, Nick, J.J., Will, Lyssa, Charla, and Ian, are thrown together against their will on a small boat that will make a one-month journey on the Pacific Ocean. They have all been sent for different reasons. Luke is taking his only choice besides being sent to a juvenile detention facility for a crime he didn't commit. Will and Lyssa are quarreling siblings sent by their parents, who hope the trip will teach them to get along better. J.J. was sent by a movie-star father after he pulled one two many pranks. Ian's parents hoped to cure him of his TV addiction. Charla was sent because she was having an arthletic "burnout." But these six totally different kids have to learn to work together to survive a vicious storm and a shipwreck that leave them stranded in the middle of the ocean with no food, no water, and almost no hope for survival.