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The Voyage of the Frog
by Gary Paulsen
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Thorndike Press (1993-11)
ISBN: 078620060X
EAN: 9780786200603
Dewy Decimal #: 813.54
Paperback: 187 pages
Reading Level: Young Adult
SKU: 08010262
Condition: Very Good As issued
Comments: Paperback. Ex-library with usual library markings. Good condition with no other markings. No highlights, underlines or notes in text. No creases to spine and front corners of cover and text bumped and book slightly cocked. Plastic coating over cover is wrinkled in front. Tight binding and clean crisp text. Very nice copy.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Slowly, David opened his eyes and looked around the horizon, wincing again with the new movement. There was nothing sticking above the water as far as he could see.
He was alone.
Fourteen-year-old David Alspeth intended only to fulfill his uncle's last wish when he set sail in the Frog, but when a savage storm slams into the tiny sailboat, David is stranded. No wind. No radio. Little water. Seven cans of food. And the storm is just the first challenge David must face...
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Customer Reviews
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Voyage into maturity
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-05-17
14 year old David has just inherited a small sailboat, the Frog, from his favorite uncle. A month earlier David and his uncle were enjoying themselves whether they were going out for a sail or just talking. Uncle Owen was in love with learning about everything and greatly enjoyed sharing what he had learned with David. Then Owen went to the doctor about a persistent backache and discovered that he had cancer. Within days his life changed from active days spent sailing to lying in a hospital bed dependent on morphine to manage the pain. His last wish was for David to take his ashes on a last voyage on the Frog, far out to sea out of sight of land.
David decides to set out on his sad journey a bit earlier than planned and without making a final check on the weather. He is caught up in a storm and swept far off his planned course, injured and in danger of sinking. As David struggles to return home he learns many lessons about life and himself.
This is an excellent adventure story, one that will keep the reader turning pages to see how David manages to survive. Although the reading level is about 4th grade the subject matter is a bit more mature, so I would recommend this one to the Middle School rather than Elementary set.
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Survival at Sea
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-07-01
David, a fourteen-year-old, is devastated. His favorite uncle, a man who lived nearby and always made time for him, the man who taught him to sail, is dead. They'd found the cancer when he went in to get a backache checked out, and just weeks later he died. His last wish was for David to have his sailboat, the Frog, and for David to take it out alone one day and scatter his ashes in the Pacific Ocean.
When David goes to the Frog a short time later, he intends to sleep in it at the dock that night and then take it out the next day after checking the supplies and the weather. Instead, he is so moved by being on the boat among his uncle's things that he decides to sail out at night, his uncle's favorite time, and be back the next day.
Without checking anything for safety, David leaves the dock and sails for hours, until land is nowhere in sight. He sails through the nght and into the next morning before he decides he is far enough away to scatter his uncle's ashes. As he is getting ready to head back home, he notices waves in the distance that look funny. Before he can really prepare, David is in the middle of a giant storm that knocks him out, dislocates his shoulder and leaves him, over a day and a half later, dazed and lost in the ocean with few supplies. Thus begins his real journey.
For the first time in his short life, David finds out what it's like to truly be fighting to stay alive. He learns to read the ocean and to trust himself. But will his determination and his new knowledge be enough to get him home safely?
I liked learning along with David what would need to be done when lost at sea in a sailboat. I also liked the way David was able to deal with his uncle's death by spending time alone on his boat, figuring out how to stay alive. This situation seemed to speed up the process of grieving.
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The Voyage of the Frog
Rating  (1)
Date: 2006-01-23
1 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
The book I read is The Voyage of the Frog. The author is Gary Paulsen. This book is a fiction story. The plot is a 14 year-old boy, David Alspeth, set sail to his Uncle's boat, THe Frog. But when a massive storm throws the tiny boat all over the place, David is stranded. Little water, low supply of canned food, no radio, and no wind. The storm is only one of the many problems he must face. I recemend this book to the ages from 10-14. I really liked it because it was about boating and I love to boat. It was also about adventure, anybody who likes adventure should like this book.
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The Voyage of the Frog
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-12-14
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
David Alspeth's uncle Owen had been taking him sailing and teaching him to sail for years. Then David's unlce Owen found out that he had cancer. It was spreading very fast. A week after he went to the doctor, he passed away. Before he died while he was in the hospital, Owen called David in. Owen told him that he wanted David to have his sailboat, the Frog. He also told him that he was going to be cremated and he wanted David to take his ashes on the Frog out in the middle of the ocean and scatter his ashes where you can't see land. When Owen passed away, David took his ashes out like he was supposed to. It wasn't as easy as he thought his trip would be. David went through a couple of big storms, had many encounters with ocean animals, and got lost at sea. Would David ever make it back home? Find out in this great adventure book!
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Unsmooth Sailing
Rating (1)
Date: 2005-11-09
0 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Gary Paulsen has an uncanny knack for writing survival stories, but this one seems a little repetitive. Considering the time spent at sea isn't at all productive, just basic survival and bad luck. It's only partially his fault, but I think being lost at sea just isn't a very interesting surviving place. This story is extremely uneventful and I would recommend it only to someone who is actually in a predicament like his. It'll help you pass the time. ;)
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