Timothy of the Cay (edition 1993)

More excellent than I had anticipated. Recommended ( )

this book is not as good as the cay but if you loved thae cay than you should read this ( )

Here is the prequel to The Cay by Theodore Taylor. The flashes back to events before those in The Cay and foward to Phillip's life after he is rescued.
Review by: Fiona

This is Theodore Taylor's sequal to The Cay. It is a prequal, and flashes back to events before those in The Cay and foward to Phillip's life after he is rescued. This is a great book for upper elementary grades.

Taylor's sequel to The Cay was written over 20 years after the first book. The second book, can be described as a pre-quel. It highlights characters before The Cay and then flashes forward to Phillip's life after being rescued from the cay. The chapters flip-flop altering between story lines. I found myself reading alternate chapters and then going back and reading the other story separately. I'm not sure what this book was trying to solve, and it just doesn't measure up to the original, The Cay. ( )