Treasure Island: Runaway Gold
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Bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes reimagines the classic novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson in this thrilling adventure set in modern-day Manhattan, in which three children must navigate the city’s hidden history, dodge a threatening crew of skater kids, and decide who they can really trust in order to hunt down a long-buried treasure.
Three kids. One dog. And the island of Manhattan, laid out in an old treasure map.
Zane is itching for an adventure that will take him away from his family’s boarding house in Rockaway, Queens. So when he is entrusted with a real treasure map, leading to a spot somewhere in Manhattan, Zane wastes no time in riding the ferry over to the city to start the search with his friends Kiko and Jack and his dog, Hip-Hop.
Through strange coincidence, they meet a man who is eager to help them find the treasure: John, a sailor who knows all about the buried history of Black New Yorkers of centuries past—and the gold that is hidden somewhere in those stories.
As a vicious rival skateboard crew follows them around the city, Zane and his friends begin to wonder who they can really trust. And soon it becomes clear that treasure hunting is a dangerous business…
Jewell Parker Rhodes has written a version of Treasure Island like none you’ve never seen—one that takes the reader through little-known Black history, and under the city of Manhattan itself.
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Following his father's death, Black middle schooler Zane's mother must take in several boarders—"all of them old, smelling of Vicks VapoRub and mothballs"—to afford their Queens home. But the bills still pile up despite the extra income, and Zane worries that he and his mother will be evicted. One of the boarders, elderly Captain Maddie, who claims she has a hidden treasure, urges Zane to protect her hoard before dying suddenly. In her room, Zane finds an old treasure map of Manhattan containing mysterious clues, and Zane—accompanied by his two best friends and his dog Hip-Hop—subsequently embarks on an epic treasure hunt. While attempting to evade a group of skateboarders intent on stealing the map and claiming the treasure for themselves, Zane and company encounter an enigmatic man named John who offers to help piece together the clues. As the mission grows more treacherous, Zane must determine whom to trust. In this contemporary spin on Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, Rhodes (Paradise on Fire) employs lush descriptive language and engaging dialogue teeming with historical facts, and crafts a sincere protagonist whose compassion for others radiates from the pages of this high-octane romp. Ages 10–up.
