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Treasure Island (Classic Starts Series) » (Modern Retelling)
Authors: Robert Louis Stevenson, Lucy Corvino (Illustrator), Chris Tait (Abridged by), Arthur Pober (Afterword), Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN-13: 9781402713187, ISBN-10: 1402713185
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Sterling Publishing
Date Published: March 2005
Edition: Modern Retelling
Author Biography: Robert Louis Stevenson
The Victorian poet and novelist Robert Louis Stevenson once said, "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." The author of the magical A Child's Garden of Verses and the chilling The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson indeed planted powerful literary seeds -- that grew into undisputed classics.
Book Synopsis
Expertly retold to appeal to second to fourth graders, as well as older reluctant readers, each of the beautiful, high-quality books in the Classic Starts series is a literary treasure.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | vii | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | xxvii | |
| Treasure Island | ||
| Part I | The Old Buccaneer | |
| I. | The Old Sea Dog at the "Admiral Benbow" | 3 |
| II. | Black Dog Appears and Disappears | 9 |
| III. | The Black Spot | 15 |
| IV. | The Sea-Chest | 20 |
| V. | The Last of the Blind Man | 25 |
| VI. | The Captain's Papers | 30 |
| Part II | The Sea Cook | |
| VII. | I Go to Bristol | 37 |
| VIII. | At the Sign of the "Spy-glass" | 42 |
| IX. | Powder and Arms | 47 |
| X. | The Voyage | 52 |
| XI. | What I Heard in the Apple Barrel | 57 |
| XII. | Council of War | 62 |
| Part III | My Shore Adventure | |
| XIII. | How My Shore Adventure Began | 69 |
| XIV. | The First Blow | 74 |
| XV. | The Man of the Island | 79 |
| Part IV | The Stockade | |
| XVI. | Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship Was Abandoned | 87 |
| XVII. | Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat's Last Trip | 91 |
| XVIII. | Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day's Fighting | 95 |
| XIX. | Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade | 99 |
| XX. | Silver's Embassy | 104 |
| XXI. | The Attack | 109 |
| Part V | My Sea Adventure | |
| XXII. | How My Sea Adventure Began | 117 |
| XXIII. | The Ebb-tide Runs | 122 |
| XXIV. | The Cruise of the Coracle | 126 |
| XXV. | I Strike the Jolly Roger | 131 |
| XXVI. | Israel Hands | 136 |
| XXVII. | "Pieces of Eight" | 143 |
| Part VI | Captain Silver | |
| XXVIII. | In the Enemy's Camp | 151 |
| XXIX. | The Black Spot Again | 158 |
| XXX. | On Parole | 164 |
| XXXI. | The Treasure Hunt--Flint's Pointer | 170 |
| XXXII. | The Treasure Hunt--The Voice among the Trees | 176 |
| XXXIII. | The Fall of a Chieftain | 181 |
| XXXIV. | And Last | 186 |
| Appendix A | "My First Book" (1894) | 191 |
| Appendix B | Tales of a Traveller | 201 |
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