It’s also the perfect book to hand to a young reader who loves Hatchet , The Maze Runner , or Island of the Blue Dolphins .
Don’t let the tame title fool you. This is a brutal, smart, and hopeful adventure—and it deserves to stand next to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea as one of Verne’s finest. Have you read Two Years’ Vacation? Do you think it holds up against Lord of the Flies? Let me know in the comments below. jules verne two years vacation pdf
If the premise sounds familiar—a group of boys stranded on a remote island, forced to build a society and fight for survival—you’d be right. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954) is often credited as the pioneer, but Verne published this novel in , over sixty years earlier. It’s also the perfect book to hand to