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Overview

A sailing trip to the Caribbean might sound great, but sixteen-year-old Rachel can't stand being trapped on a small boat with her family. She misses her best friend and feels guilty about leaving her older sister Emma, who lives in a group home. Her father is driving her crazy with his schedules and rules, her brother is miserable, and there is never anyone her own age around. Worst of all, there is nowhere to go when her parents fight. While their boat is being repaired, the family spends a few weeks in a small Bahamian community, where Rachel and Tim discover a secret which turns their world upside down and threatens to destroy the fragile ties that hold their family together.

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Atlantic Boating News
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Booklist
"The writing's emotional honesty and realistic dialogue will appeal to many teens."
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CM Magazine
"It is well-written, well-paced, easy to read and conveys the message that there is no such thing as a perfect parent... Stevenson's conversational style is a great hook and her mastery of teen dialogue and teen angst is engaging. Highly recommended."
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"The characters are well drawn, the ending is realistic and believable, and the plot is reasonably paced. This is a readable, interesting book that would appeal to a teen reader."
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"A page-turning plot...Interesting characters and a creative setting."
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"[Stevenson] eschews cliche in her keen and credible exploration of family dynamics... Readers looking for a family drama with adroit characterization, serious issues, and a little risky romance on the side should sign up for this voyage."
The Financial Post
"Robin Stevenson writes engagingly for teens...and explores deep issues."
The Indextrious Reader blog
"A nice family to read about—complex without stereotypes, a family you are pulling for...The storyline develops the topics of autonomy, responsibility, sexual mores, and basic angst. It's well-done and brings up the idea of tolerance of shades of grey in life."
Tri State Young Adult Book Review Committee
"This realistically gritty story is full of raw emotion... Teenage girls...will enjoy this first-person coming -of-age story."
Tucson Unified School District
"Highly recommended."
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An unhappy family is the stuff of story. Here said unhappy family is on a sailboat, claustrophobically together for months. The narrator is the 16-year-old daughter Rachel, angry, confused; her 12-year-old brother Tim is along, but the parents have left the oldest sibling Emma back in Canada, in a home for developmentally disabled adults. This is one reason for Rachel's fury. The father works with adolescents but seems to have no ability to connect to his own teenage children. His idea to force family togetherness through this yearlong voyage doesn't seem to be working. When Rachel and Tim inadvertently discover their mother's affair with a family friend, their confusion just grows. Rachel starts acting out, sneaking off the boat at night to visit a 25-year-old man with whom she drinks, smokes weed, and flirts. The truth comes out, eventually, and after the venting, each person in the family feels somewhat less confused and angry. Realistically, there are no easy answers or solutions to the family's struggle to remain together. The feelings of the teenagers are conveyed with understanding and skill by Stevenson; some of the best sections of the novel, however, are descriptions of the boat, sailing, snorkeling, and the skill and independence of the teenagers. Reviewer: Claire Rosser
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Rachel's family is off on a year-long bonding project, sailing from Canada to the Bahamas. For the sixteen-year-old and her younger brother Tim, the project is a bust. Their parents are still fighting, right? And what about their older sister Emma, deserted in a Canadian group home? When their sailboat breaks its rudder, enforced time in the Bahamian town of Georgetown brings all their seething issues to the point of explosion. Rachel's dangerous dalliance with the 25-year-old sailing playboy Col lights the fuse. Robin Stevenson knows her young adult audience. Rachel has all the impatience and angst of a restless, suburban adolescent with issues. Of course she has issues, as shown by being beastly to her brother Tim, lashing out at her less-than-perfect parents, and struggling with raging hormones. Then there's the claustrophobia of the tiny sailboat itself . . . . Can the beauty of the islands and the sea save Rachel and her family? Reviewer: Kathleen Karr
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Who would not want to sail around on crystal blue water for a year? Sixteen-year-old Rachel is about to embark on that experience when her parents decide to take her and her nerdy brother out of school and go sailing for an entire year. Rachel's father thinks it will solve the family problems although the rest of them are not so sure. Rachel is a typical teen who wants to spend as little time as possible with her parents, and she is worried that they will be leaving her older sister Emma, who is mentally and physically disabled, who counts on the family for weekly visits. The author does a fantastic job of making each character relatable to teens and creates some major drama between Rachel's mother and one of the locals that keeps the reader interested. Rachel's father is portrayed as what many youth see in mental-health and other professionals who spend all their time with clients and not enough time with their own families. Although they have many ups and downs on their "family vacation," there is a sense of calm and hope at the end. The book flows very smoothly, making it an easy read for teens. Reviewer: Robyn Guedel
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Gr 8-10

In an attempt to bring them all closer together, Rachel's parents uproot her and her younger brother to sail the family boat down the East Coast and through the Caribbean. Rachel, 16, is totally against the idea; she doesn't want to leave her older sister, who suffers from a brain injury and lives in a group home. They will be gone for an entire year, which chaps Rachel's hide big time, and then she discovers along the way that her mother is having an affair with a smarmy, married yachtsman. Taking comfort in her friendship with older, freer Becca, Rachel begins to strike out on her own, sneaking out at night to have a few drinks; hear music; and spend time with a smooth, 25-year-old drifter. From struggling with her desire to lose (or hold onto) her virginity to feeling anger toward her mother and pity for her clueless father, Rachel comes across as a real teen with whom readers will identify. Using the small boat as a setting highlights the cramped, suffocating feeling many young people have when spending a lot of time with parents and siblings. The book has no easy answers, and the family's problems are not anywhere near solved in the end, giving the novel a refreshing realism.-Nora G. Murphy, Los Angeles Academy Middle School

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781551439211
  • Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
  • Publication date: 10/1/2008
  • Pages: 240
  • Sales rank: 1,241,635
  • Age range: 13 - 18 Years
  • Lexile: NC600L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 0.70 (d)

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Sailing in the Bahamas is a dream come true, right? Clear blue water, suntanning every day, cocktails on the deck with ice cubes clinking, tropical fish, brightly colored coral reefs.

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  • Posted January 31, 2009

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    Rachel is a sixteen-year-old daughter trapped on a year-round sailing trip aboard a small boat with her dysfunctional family.

    Her dad, a child psychologist more in tune to the problems of his patients than his own children, suggested the trip to repair the rift between the family. However, Rachel feels guilty leaving her mentally-impaired older sister behind, along with missing her friends.

    Rachel's parents continue to fight on the trip, her brother, Tim, seems to be bitter and the fringe hoping to hold their parents together, and Rachel never has anyone her age to be with. Ultimately, Rachel and Tim discover a grave secret that they are afraid to confront, threatening the continuity of their family that they wish to hold onto.

    I enjoyed this story, as it had a page-turning plot as Stevenson effectively sets up the suspense so that the reader feels the need to continue reading the story to its ultimate conclusion. Along with some coming-of-age storyline, A THOUSAND SHADES OF BLUE provides for some interesting characters and a creative setting.

    I only wish that the author chose to develop her characters a bit more, and elaborate on the beauty of the Caribbean and the surroundings, adding further depth to the story.

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