Robie Mitchell

Robie Mitchell is a fifteen-year-old girl who is visiting her aunt in Hawaii. She lives with her family on the Midway Atoll. She is comfortable with the remote way in which she lives and understands the importance of wildlife and conservation.

In many ways Robie is a typical teenage girl. She tests the boundaries of her independence and wants to explore. She gets her nose pierced without her parents’ permission and gets a henna tattoo instead of a real one because she feels she’s already pushing her lock.

She persuades her aunt to let her stay by herself when AJ is called away for work. After an incident with a stranger, she decides to take the supply plane back to midway. She travels without her family knowing, and despite the assumption of a routine flight, Robie ends up stranded at sea following a plane crash.

She...