Shipwreck

Gordon Korman's Shipwreck (2000) is the first installment of the Island Trilogy— followed by Survival (2001) and Escape (2001). The narrative follows six troubled teens who join a month-long sea voyage in Guam aboard The Phoenix schooner under the Charting a New Course program to learn teamwork and social skills.

Korman is a prolific Canadian author of young adult and children’s fiction, having written over 100 books, selling over 35 million copies worldwide. Korman completed his BFA at New York University and currently lives with his family in Long Island.

The edition used for this study guide was published in 2001 by Scholastic, Apple Paperbacks.

Plot Summary:

Shipwreck, the first book of the Island Trilogy, introduces the main characters of the series: six adolescents who meet in Guam to begin a month-long program with Charting a New Course (CNC) aboard a schooner, The Phoenix. CNC is an intense program designed to help troubled youth learn social and cooperative skills while living and sailing on the open ocean. The only adults aboard are Captain Cascadden and his first mate, Mr. Radford.

The narrative is told primarily from the perspective of 13-year-old Luke Haggerty, periodically switching to the perspectives of siblings Will and

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