When fourteen-year-old Benita's wealthy family goes bankrupt as a result of the Depression, they go from their luxurious life in Guayaquil, Ecuador to a primitive island, with the wild scheme of starting a coconut plantation.
- ISBN10 0553494120
- ISBN13 9780553494129
- Publish Date 3 May 2006 (first published 9 November 2004)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Random House USA Children's Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 336
- Language English