Return to the Island

by Gloria Whelan

Book Overview

Is Mary home for good?It is the spring of 1818 and Mary O'Shea has returned from England to her beloved Mackinac Island. She loves her life on the family firm and knows that she chose wisely in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060282533
• ISBN13: 9780060282530
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 8

Customer Reviews

How I see/Why I like the book

This book was based on some history and yes, its fiction too. I like it because its fun to read and its kid book too. Kid books are fun to read. This book gives a girl courage about herself... The main character is about this girl MAry who is living on an island but when she went to visit her sister Angelique oversea, she befriends a duke's son. HE fell in love with her and asked for her hand in marriage but she had to return home b/c her father got sick and he folloed her back to USA. This book is about her adventure back on her island and how she found where her heart belonged. Where and to who it belong to. I love this book because it good a bit of romance and a bit of adventure in it. Kid who loves history, romance and adventure would like this book.

A satisfying conclusion to the trilogy.

Mary O'Shea is no longer a child, but a young woman of eighteen. Having returned to her frontier home on the Great Lakes island of Mackinac after a visit with her sister, she is able to bid farewell to her ailing father before his death. Now she is keeping up the farm she inheirited with the help of her older brother and his Indian wife. But when the English suitor she refused, James, follows Mary to Mackinac to once more try to win her heart, she finds herself torn between him and her childhood friend, White Hawk, an orphaned Indian boy raised by a childless white couple. Her feelings for White Hawk have become romantic, and a marriage to him will allow her to remain on the island she loves. It was quite clear to me from the beginning what the outcome of this book would be, but I enjoyed it anyway. I am a bit sad that this is the final book, but it is a fitting end - Mary, a child in the first book, has grown into a married young woman with a home of her own. A highly statisfying conclusion.