Books like On the island by Tracey Garvis-Graves

When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation. T.J. has no desire to leave town, and the family is left to deal with the consequences. They're on a seaplane when the pilot suffers a heart attack and crashes in the Indian Ocean. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they reach the shore of an uninhabited island. Now Anna and T.J. just want to survive and work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter. Their basic needs might be met, but as the days turn to weeks, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J.'s cancer could return. As T.J. celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man.

First publish date: 2011