The raft a bodeen book report

Bodeen includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 57 chapters, as well as several more indepth sections of expert. Bodeen takes an ordinary teenage girl, places her in an extraordinary situation, and details her excruciating tale its triumphs and missteps, and the lengths to which robie will go to keep herself sane and alive. It is not boring because of all of the exciting adventures throughout the whole book from the very beginning to the very end. When her plane crashes, robies years of living with her researcher parents on midway island provide her with important knowledge. This study guide consists of approximately 43 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of the raft. My favorite plot of the book is the narrative hook, technical climax, and the falling action. As a survival tale, this is both engaging and full of scary factoids and frightening possibilities. She travels the country making school visits, and lives with her husband outside of minneapolis. Shes taken the flight from honolulu to the midway atoll, a group of pacific islands where her parents live, many times. The only thing standing in his way is the faceless man behind this plan, known only as the gardener. Apr 11, 20 the new book that im reading is the raft. As well as those, it has adventure, an okay protagonist and a small twist in the story. The raft is an amazing book with a lot of twists and a huge twist at the end. The conflict in this book is pretty obvious, shes in a plane crash and stuck in the middle of the ocean with only a raft and a few kind of useless supplies.

Her aunts friend, who is to check on robie every day while her aunt is away, is not able to do so. She is also the author of the shipwreck island series for middlegrade readers. When her plane crashes, robies years of living with her researcher parents on. Questions are plotbased and spaced evenly throughout the book with no trick questions or insignificant details. I agree that there were points in the book that did get a little stupid and the plot went dry. On her flight back to midway the cargo plane hits nasty weather, and goes down. Bodeen includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 57 chapters, as well as several more indepth sections of expertwritten literary analysis. Reviews of the the raft thus far with regards to the ebook we now have the raft pdf opinions customers have never however quit the report on the action, or you cannot read it but. Robie seizes the opportunity to be the independent girl shes always wanted to be. Bodeen, i want her to know that the raft was an amazing book. When they finally reach an island that seems abandoned, robie hopes theyll be found quickly. She has taken the flight from honolulu to the midway atoll, a group of pacific islands where her parents live, many times.

Erin is loud, foulmouthed, an unrepentant lover of trashy movies and believes that champagne should be an every day drink. When she has to get to midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in hawaii, she gets on the next cargo flight at the last minute. The raft by ferris dietrich on prezi my book report is about the book called the raft. Bodeen posted on september 26, 2012 ive been in the mood for some bleak survivalend of the world as we know it reads, and i spied both of these books patiently waiting for their turn to be read on my admittedly overflowing tbr. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Echoes of time v2 by kevin macleod is licensed under a creative commons attribution license. I wish i could tell you more, but i cant do that without spoiling anything. For example, we find out that she used to have trichotillomania, which is a disorder where people have the urge to pull their hair out. Robbies lastminute flight to the midway atoll proves to be a nightmare when the plane goes down in sharkinfested waters, but the real terror begins when the co.

All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. The central conflict is about how robie is going to survive on the raft and on the island. Instead of spending her weekends at high school football games or sleeping over at friends houses, livvy goes on book tours and speaks at writing conferences. The quiz can be used as a quick formative assessment to help with conferencing. Bodeen this study guide consists of approximately 43 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of the raft. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the raft. I had some positive and negative opinions on the raft. Bodeen, the awardwinning the compound, came out from feiwel and friends in 2008. The airplane crashes and the main protagonist ends up having to survive using only a raft and max. In fact, she looks like shes desperately holding on. We get to see a vulnerable side to her, and see her insecurities. Fifteenyearold robie is on her way home to midway island after vacationing in hono. The raft that becomes her support contains some useful items, but with the only other survivor almost comatose, it is clear that robie is pretty much on her. A simple airplane trip becomes a harrowing struggle for survival in this tense offering from bodeen the gardener.

Stephanie is the awardwinning author of the elizabetis doll series of picture books, as well as several others. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. Totally agree that things did get too convenience out at sea. I started to look through the book of henna tattoo samples. The major theme of my book is a stranger in a strange land or alienation. Review and content info for middle grade contemporary novel the raft by s. Bodeen for a while, and finally decided that it was time.

The raft is less logically sound than the detour, a later ya horror novel by s. Shes taken the flight from honolulu to the midway atoll, a group of. This book is about a girl whose plane crashes in the middle of the ocean. Her first picture book, elizabetis doll written as stephanie stuve bodeen was published in 1998, followed by six other picture books. The author pulls you into the book by the first sentence. The girl on the cover looks like everything in life that could possibly go wrong, has gone wrong. Robie is pulled aboard a raft by max, who is injured and slipping in and out of consciousness. The main character of the book is a girl called robie and is an experienced explorer and is visiting her aunt in honolulu. My favorite scene was how the story told us how robie hallucinated about max being there alive with her in the raft, yet he really wasnt because he had died earlier. This book actually teaches the readers what to do if the are stranded on an island or in a raft in the middle of nowhere.

I was gobbling up the book and finished it in one sitting. But anyways in parts during the book he tells robie about his life in little. It does have its flaws, but its a short book that is a good example of human survival. Then she ran away from honolulu to go back home to where she lived on the island of midway. The raft that becomes her support contains some useful items, but with the only other survivor almost comatose, it is clear that robie is pretty much on her own. But what isnt so obvious are the conflicts inside the main conflict like the fact that she has no food or that the raft has a hole in it, maybe sharks. The raft free pdf, chm, djvu, rtf free download ebook. Now i only mentioned where i read this book because the raft is about an airplane ride gone wrong. The raft is robies survival story in the waters of the pacific. Maxhiss a man who survived in the plane crash with robie.

Ms bodeen showed the monotony of being stranded on a raft. I think that the author was saying that life has some rough patches that can be as rough as being in a raft and being stranded on an island by yourself. The raft is a book about 15yearold robie mitchell who must stay at her aunts apartment in honolulu, hawaii, until she returns. Jul 25, 2016 her first picture book, elizabetis doll written as stephanie stuvebodeen was published in 1998, followed by six other picture books. The plane that took robie back to midway had turbulence problem and the plane crashed. Even though the majority of the book is spent in a raft, bodeen s pacing was spoton, allowing for a suspenseful read. Shes taken the flight from honolulu to the midway atoll, a group of pacific islands w. To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself george orwell 2. Being the young envy of writers everywhere suits livvy just fine, until one fateful trip to a writing retreat gets derailed. She had conflict from the very beginning when a man tried to grab her. Cutting short a visit to an aunt in honolulu, 15yearold robie gets on a small cargo plane delivering supplies that founders in an electrical storm. Bodeen, robie mitchell is staying with her aunt on oahu. Nov 03, 2012 i agree that there were points in the book that did get a little stupid and the plot went dry. The lead is a reaction of robbie looking a mean with a needle in his hand.

I choose this movie trailer to present, is to give the image of how the characters and events look like. She knows the pilot, but on this flight, there is a new copilot named max. Bodeen is the author of the ya novels the compound, the gardener, the raft, and the fallout. Seventeenyearold livvy flynn isnt your average teenager. It has all that most stories has like it, sharks, a boat, no water and no food. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. Robie almost got robbed and she is left terrified, so she decides to. I waited for the next obstacle for robie to overcome with bated breath, always questioning if the next obstacle would be her undoing. And for all of this, bodeen s novel does a phenomenal job.

Hanging out in honolulu with her aunt is a far cry from midway atoll where her scientist parents work. I like the book because it makes me want to keep reading. Aug 21, 2012 the raft by s a bodeen, 9780312650100, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. As i started reading this book, i worried about two things happening. My favorite part of the book is when robbie freaked out on having to jump out of the plane. As the book progresses, we get to see flashbacks from livvys past, and these flashbacks actually made me sort of like her. Robie is a experienced traveler but never had a trip like this. The novel count is up to five, with two more releasing in 2015. Instead of playing the shark horror angle to the hilt, assigning the carnivorous fish an unrealistically aggressive demeanor, the story is more subtle, focusing on other aspects of survival at sea. Hes unconscions and sleeps all through out the book. A bodeen, book report describe literary terms from within our book. Its just robie, the pilot, and max, a copilot shes never met till this flight, on board.