The Cay

Blurb

The Cay is a children's novel written by Theodore Taylor. It was published in 1969.
The Cay took only three weeks to complete. Taylor based the character of the boy in his book on a child who was aboard the Hato, when it was torpedoed, who drifts out to sea on a lifeboat. The novel was published in 1969 and dedicated to Martin Luther King, Jr.