cay

He is an 11-year-old boy from Virginia who lives with his parents on Curacao, a Dutch island in the Caribbean Sea. When German submarines bomb a major oil refinery on an island near Curacao, Phillip's mother decides to take Phillip back to Virginia for safety. But his dad did not go so Phillip and his mother got on the ship after a few minutes it got torpedoed by a German submarine. Phillip hits his head. He awakens on a life raft in the middle of the ocean, alone with only a cat, and an old man, Timothy. While on the raft, Phillip learns more about Timothy and that he was blind. Also trying to survive on a tiny cay.