Secrets of Sable Island by Marcia Pierce Harding is about an island at the edge of the Continental Shelf or the southern side of Halifax Nova Scotia. The island sounded by sandbars that go on for miles and is covered by an almost constant wind pushing the sand around burring buildings and shifting the island into different shapes unexceptionally. The story takes place with a boy names Caleb on a bout sailing through a storm past sable island and is swept off the side go the boat by a rough wave, he’s swept to sable island and lays in the mushy sand as he feels the water rising higher and higher till he feels the warm breath of something on his face to see a big horse standing over him. He passed out again watching it run away and wakes up when hes grabbed and thrown over a mans shoulders “as a sack of potatoes” he explains. He wakes up in a cabin that smells like smoke and the breakfast the man is preparing for the two, Caleb realizes theres a bandage on his head and wood planks wrapped around his leg. The man preparing breakfast see’s Caleb awake and explains the horse came and got him throwing a fit outside his window and leading him over to Caleb saving his life.