Two burros sold to the slave-driving owners of the silver mine eventually return to save their village from starvation.
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Scott O'Dell (1898-1989), one of the most respected authors of historical fiction, received the Newbery Medal, three Newbery Honor Medals, and the Hans Christian Andersen Author Medal, the highest international recognition for a body of work by an author of books for young readers. Some of his many books include The Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Road to Damietta, Sing Down the Moon, and The Black Pearl.
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Scott O'Dell, born May 23, 1898 in Los Angeles, grew up in southern California when it was still a frontier. San Pedro and Rattlesnake Island, near Los Angeles, were two places where the feel of the frontier and the sea influenced the young O'Dell. He attended Occidental College in 1919, University of Wisconsin in 1920, Stanford University from 1920 to 1921, and the University of Rome in 1925. Deciding to forget graduation, he took only classes that interested him and would help in a writing career. As a cameraman for the original motion picture, "Ben Hur," O'Dell used the first technicolor camera. While working as book editor for the Los Angeles Times, he began writing books. His first work, Representative Photoplays Analyzed: Modern Authorship, was published in 1924; and his first novel, Woman of Spain: A Story of Old California, was published in 1934. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, O'Dell continued writing, producing six adult books and novels. Twenty-six years after his first novel for adults, O'Dell wrote Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960), his first juvenile book. Based on a true story about an Indian girl who spent eighteen years alone on an island off the coast of California, O'Dell drew upon his childhood memories of playing and exploring on Dead Man's Island near Los Angeles. The story was made into a motion picture in 1963; another O'Dell novel, The Black Pearl, also was made into a movie in 1976. He wrote twenty-six children's books before his death in 1989. Island of the Blue Dolphins was highly acclaimed, receiving the Newbery Medal in 1961, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award im 1961, Zur Errinnerung an die 2000-Jahrfeier der Stadt Mainz in 1962, and the William Allen White Children's Book Award in 1963. O'Dell received three Newbery (honor) awards: in 1967 for The King's Fifth, in 1968 for The Black Pearl, and in 1971 for Sing Down the Moon. He also was the recipient of the New York Times Outstanding Books for Child of Fire in 1974 and the Parents' Choice Award for Alexandra in 1984 and for Streams to the River, River to the Sea: A Novel of Sacagewea in 1986. O'Dell received the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1972, the University of Southern Mississippi Silver Medallion in 1976, and the Regina Medal in 1978.
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