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(0)Robert Louis Stevenson
Author
Language
English
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Piratical Reads for Teens
Description
Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". First published as a book on 23 May 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881 and 1882 under the title Treasure Island or, the mutiny of the Hispaniola with Stevenson adopting the pseudonym Captain George North. Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island...
3) Kidnapped
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sixteen-year-old orphan is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, but later escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A watcher by the dead: A corpse brings death, dereliction, and madness to those who would play with it.
Adventure of the German student: A German student, caught up in the tempestuous times of the French Revolution, is intoxicated by the beauty of a stranger, and pledges himself to her forever.
Dickon the devil: Barwyke Hall, isolated and sinister, is haunted by both the living and the dead.
The body-snatchers: A never-ending demand for bodies...