Eleven-year-old Daisy Tannenbaum, tomboy extraordinaire, doesn’t want to go back to school. So, when she ends up on an isolated island in the Indian Ocean after her family is accidentally kidnapped by Malay pirates, she’s totally psyched. For her, this is paradise. Her family, however, is utterly unprepared to cope with the primitive conditions on the island. Her parents are divorced and barely on speaking terms, her sister wants to crush Daisy’s skull with a rock, and a grad student Daisy’s dad may or may not have had a thing with ends up washed ashore with them. Nothing ruins paradise like having your stupid family around. All of this is true by the way, or so Daisy claims. And if it isn’t, Daisy’s sardonic, pre-teen narration makes it completely plausible: finding buried gold, fighting off sharks, pirates, and gnat attacks, and rescuing her family despite herself. Nobody can stop Daisy Tannenbaum.
Eleven-year-old Daisy Tannenbaum, tomboy extraordinaire, doesn’t want to go back to school. So, when she ends up on an isolated island in the Indian Ocean after her family is accidentally kidnapped by Malay pirates, she’s totally psyched. For her, this is paradise. Her family, however, is utterly unprepared to cope with the primitive conditions on the island. Her parents are divorced and barely on speaking terms, her sister wants to crush Daisy’s skull with a rock, and a grad student Daisy’s dad may or may not have had a thing with ends up washed ashore with them. Nothing ruins paradise like having your stupid family around. All of this is true by the way, or so Daisy claims. And if it isn’t, Daisy’s sardonic, pre-teen narration makes it completely plausible: finding buried gold, fighting off sharks, pirates, and gnat attacks, and rescuing her family despite herself. Nobody can stop Daisy Tannenbaum.