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Zusatztext The opening volume of a companion to the STRANDED series ( New York Times bestseller STRANDED , TRIAL BY FIRE , and SURVIORS )! As seen on The Today Show, Rachael Ray, and Kelly and Michael. " Stranded is non-stop adventure! If your kids love Survivor , they'll love this book!" —Mark Burnett, Executive Producer of Survivor , The Voice , Shark Tank , and Celebrity Apprentice "An epic adventure for that young adventurer in us all!" —Bear Grylls, host of Discovery's Man vs Wild, NBC's Get Out Alive and #1 bestselling author Informationen zum Autor Jeff Probst Klappentext STRANDED: SHADOW ISLAND is the companion series to the New York Times bestselling STRANDED adventures! As seen on The Today Show! Rachael Ray! and Kelly and Michael. From the Emmy-Award winning host of Survivor! Jeff Probst! with Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life co-author Chris Tebbetts A brand new adventure following the characters from the original STRANDED family adventure trilogy! It happened to them once. It could never happen again! right? Two months ago! Vanessa and Buzz's dad married Jane and Carter's mom and they became a family. But their adventure really started just two weeks ago when the four siblings were shipwrecked and stranded on a deserted tropical island for thirteen days. Alone. They thought it was over! but now! they find themselves on a whole new island! and this time! they're not alone. Getting here was a nightmare. Leaving just might be impossible. Because this time! it's forbidden. Books in the Stranded! Shadow Island series Forbidden Passage (Book 4) Sabotage (Book 5) Desperate Measures (Book 6) Books in the original Stranded series: Stranded (Book 1) Trial By Fire (Book 2) Survivors (Book 3) Leseprobe CHAPTER 1 Carter Benson felt a horrible sense of déjà vu as he stood on the edge of the green and shadowy jungle. He was drenched, out of breath, and already starting to shiver. How could this be happening again? As he waited for Buzz, Vanessa, and Jane to catch up, he scanned the area for any clues about where they’d just landed. But something else caught his eye. There, on a rocky point at the far end of the beach, was a girl. Dressed in dried grass, braided leaves, and some kind of leather or skin tunic, she looked unlike anyone Carter had ever seen before. As she stared back, he froze right to his spot. So much had happened in the past twelve hours, his brain didn’t seem to know what to make of it. Or of her. Then again, everything that had happened in the last two weeks would have seemed impossible . . . two weeks ago. How they’d survived a shipwreck and thirteen days on a deserted South Pacific island, Carter wasn’t even sure anymore. But at least they’d thought it was over. It wasn’t over. “Carter?” Nine-year-old Jane came up alongside him. Buzz was there now, too. He and Carter were both eleven, but Carter always got everywhere first. “HEY!” he shouted out to the girl. “What is it?” asked their older sister Vanessa, the last to join the group. Carter turned to all three of his siblings. “There’s someone—a girl—right there! Look!” “Where?” Vanessa asked. “Right there!” Shouts were coming out of the woods now. Several of them, from different directions. “What’s that?” Buzz asked. He and the girls turned toward the noise, but Carter kept his eyes on the girl. She’d crouched down now, nearly out of sight. Before Carter could make any sense of it, she checked once over her shoulder, then stood up, quickly stepped to the edge of the point, and dove. A moment later, she’d disappeared beneath the choppy surface of the water. Carter ran without thinking. He dug his feet into th...
