Beautifully illustrated new gift edition complete and unabridged features an introduction by award-winning author Michael Morpurgo and illustrations by L'uboslav Pal'o.
Themes: Hi-Lo, adapted classics, low level classics, graphic novel. These literary masterpieces are made easy and interesting. This series features classic tales retold with color illustrations to introduce literature to struggling readers.
It is Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: How he was Kidnapped and Cast away; his Sufferings in a Desert Isle; his Journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other ...
. An astounding action adventure in which Stevenson’s command of narrative, prose that’s pared to the bone, is never less than enthralling.” —The Guardian, “The 100 Best Novels” “One of the great pleasures of reconsidering ...
Robert Louis Stevenson. Hart, Francis Russell, The Scottish Novel: From Smollett to Spark (Cambridge, Ma, 1978). Jones, Jr., William B. (ed.), Robert Louis Stevenson Reconsidered: New Critical Perspectives (Jefferson, nC, 2003). kiely, ...
Someone snatched his cousin’s wife and son. FBI agent Luke Falcon is searching for a kidnapper and sorting out the crime. He’s afraid it’s the work of a stalker. He’s afraid they’re already dead.
It was unreal. Fear wanted to devour her alive. The only thing Lorna Greyling could hold onto was Gods Word texted to her by a friend the same morning her husband was kidnapped on a business trip in Nigeria.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The novel is set around 18th-century Scottish events, notably the "Appin Murder", which occurred near Ballachulish in 1752 in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745.
They flee across the Highlands in a perilous journey back to David's home where he finally claims his inheritance. Kidnapped provided much of the inspiration for John Buchan's The Thirty Nine Steps and a generation of subsequent thrillers.
After being kidnapped by his villainous uncle, sixteen-year-old David Balfour escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.
When Alan Johnston, the last Western journalist who dared to remain in Gaza, was kidnapped by terrorists, millions of people around the world felt the need to express their anger...
By turns gripping and poignant, "Kidnapped" is Kalli's compilation of empowering and spiritual journal entries made during her 373-day captivity in a desolate jungle in Colombia. Illustrations.
In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and ...
Cheated out of his inheritance and kidnapped, David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart.
"Just what I wanted!" he exclaimed; and the receipt for the "Lily of the Valley Water" was instantly incorporated into Kidnapped.I SET OFF UPON MY JOURNEY TO THE HOUSE OF SHAWS: I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning ...
The translation of this ten-volume series is being heralded as a milestone in the culinary arts. Jacques Torres, pastry chef at the famed Le Cirque, calls the series "the new encyclopedia of baking and cooking.
David Balfour's adventures on the high seas include a shipwreck, murder, flight, and intrigue--and are among the most evocative in classic literature. Stevenson's adventure is now available in this Scholastic Classics paperback edition.
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David concludes that his uncle intended for him to have an "accident" so as not to have to give over his nephew's inheritance. David confronts his uncle, who promises to tell David the whole story of his father the next morning.