The Black Pearl (Scott O'Dell)
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First edition (publ. Houghton Mifflin)
The Black Pearl is a young adult novel by Scott O'Dell first published in 1967 about the coming of age of the son of a pearl dealer.
Plot summary[]
Ramon Salazar finds a black pearl so beautiful that his father is certain Ramon has found the fabled Pearl of Heaven. This find will bring renown to their town, and to the Salazar name.
See also[]
- Herman Melville: Moby-Dick (1851)
- John Steinbeck: The Pearl (1947) (also set among the pearl divers of La Paz)
- Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea (1952) (aging Cuban fisherman struggling with a giant marlin)
- Peter Benchley: The Girl of the Sea of Cortez (1982)
Categories:
- 1967 American novels
- 1967 children's books
- American bildungsromans
- American novels adapted into films
- American young adult novels
- Newbery Honor-winning works
- Novels set in Mexico
- 1960s young adult novel stubs
- Bildungsroman stubs