Summary+of+book

Philip was a normal, average kid growing up in the middle of World War 2 until the Germans bombed the harbor and scared Phillips mom so much that it drove her to return to her home country, America. On the way to America, their ship was torpedoed and Phillip was knocked out by a falling board in all the chaos to get into the lifeboats. Phillip woke up the next morning on a small raft out in the middle of the sea with no land in sight, and with an old black man that was a hand on the torpedoed ship, and with a small amount of water and low amount of food. After a few days on the ship Phillip's vision started to blur and one day Phillip woke up and couldn't see anything and realized with a fright he was blind. After a few days of being blind the old man named Timothy reported a small island in the distance which lifted their hearts but their blood suddenly ran cold when Timothy also reported that there was no fresh water on the island because they were in a small group of islands called the Devil's Mouth surrounded by a yearly group of dangerous sharks. Timothy and Phillip stay on the island for about a year and learned to live on the island. Until, a terrible storm hits and Timothy dies trying to protect Phillip. Phillip goes for about six more months blind, but he's gotten so good at feeling his way around that it wasn't a problem anymore. One day Phillip hears a boat and creates a fire to attract attention, and the boat driver sees and comes to rescue him.