The Black Pearl

By Scott O'Dell

Subjects: Pesca, Pearl divers, award:Newbery_award, Readers, Novela, Ficción juvenil, Young adult fiction, Fiction, general, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Pearl fisheries, Deep diving, Black pearls, Children's stories, grade:min:5, Perlas, Historical fiction, Mexico, fiction, Coming of age, Survival, Pearl diving, Pearlfisheries, Teenage pearl divers, Buceo, Indians of North America, Fiction, Spanish language materials, Newbery honor book, Manta rays, Children's fiction, grade:max:7, age:min:10, Newbery Honor, Pearls, fiction, age:max:13, Fishes, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Baja california (mexico : peninsula), fiction, Islands, Pearl industry and trade

Description: In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is its owner.