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KD
Since: May, 2009
22nd May, 2022 08:44:26 PM
Deserted Island + Deadly Scratch
Edited by KD
MetaFour
MOD
Since: Jan, 2001
22nd May, 2022 10:49:40 PM
Also Race Against the Clock for the fact that the character's illness means they have to get back to civilization now (rather than waiting for rescue, as they had presumably been doing before).
And the genre of getting stranded in the wilderness and forced to survive off the land is called Robinsonade.
So, I noticed a lot of "group of kids stranded on a deserted island" books end with the same cliché: One kid gets a bad cut that gets infected, the others do something desperate to try and get rescued and their plan succeeds, book ends with sick character getting treatment. Is there a trope for this?