SearchFlorida 4th Graders Message Found 17 Years Later—Across the Atlantic!
Carrol Pannell’s fourth-grade class decided to place messages in a bottle and release into the sea. After 17 years, one bottle was found in the Canary Islands, a region of Spain.
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Novel Follows a Message in A Bottle
You can order this book online or look for it at your local library or independent bookstore. The Voyager’s Stone is a novel about a boy who sets a bottle holding a letter and a special charm adrift in the Caribbean Sea. Readers follow its journey across oceans and around continents until it finally reaches Australia, where a girl finds it, and writes a letter to the boy. She then composes her own message and sets the vessel adrift again. The bottle’s travels are helped and hindered by natural elements, from waterspouts to tidal waves, and Kraske offers fascinating tidbits about these forces of nature. Vivid pen-and-ink drawings illustrate the text. Reading level – Grades 4-6.
Real-Life Message in a Bottle Stories
Messages in bottles have brought messages of friendship, love and even helped one family escape a communist regime.
More stories of bottle messages
Here are more stories about messages found in bottles, some rather sad and others that have helped save lives.
