Possible title that I remember is Rebecca’s Island. The plot is as follows:
Mother and young daughter flee an abusive or unhappy marriage. They move to the grandmother’s home I believe. She lives with a lake behind the house and Rebecca paddles a canoe to a small island in the middle of the lake. She makes the island her sort of getaway from the troubles of her home life, paddling to the island on a daily basis. There is an ominous feeling to strange people showing up. Maybe the people are looking to find the mother and daughter for the abusive husband/father.
This was read to my elementary school class maybe in the mid to late 1980s. I got the flu and was not in school to learn how the book ended.
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Perhaps ‘Becky’s Island’ by Elisabeth Ogilvie, pub 1961?
Vicky mostly keeps to herself. During one of her lone ventures in a dory, she discovers two abandoned and scared children on a deserted island. Vicky returns the children to their home on Becky’s Island, a place rumored to be inhabited by convicts and crazy people. Vicky believes that her good deed is a one-time occurrence, but…
Possibly ‘Megan’s Island’ by Willo Davis Roberts?
Ok. I just returned to this. I believe it is Megan’s Island. I’m ordering it on Amazon not. I have been searching for this book for so long. Decades. It’s comical that I was 100% certain the name was Rebecca. I am unreasonably happy right now. Thanks for the info!
Megan’s Island, by Willo Davis Roberts.
Details don’t entirely match but this might be Megan’s Island by Willo Davis Roberts.