The Cay
1974 · from the book by Theodore Taylor
by Theodore Taylor · first published 1969
The Cay is a young adult novel written by Theodore Taylor. It was published in 1969. Taylor took only three weeks to write The Cay, having contemplated the story for over a decade after reading about an 11-year-old who was aboard the Dutch ship Hato when it was torpedoed in 1942, and who was last seen by other stranded survivors as he drifted away on a life raft. The novel was published in 1969 and was dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr.
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