Scholastic Classics: Treasure Island

Ahoy, me hearties! Can’t resist a good yarn of pirates, murder and mutiny on the high seas? Nor can we! So we’re bringing you our very own awesome edition of Treasure Island. The skull and crossbones on the cover will give you a clue to what’s inside. It’s the original pirate adventure – the one that inspired all the rest. With buried treasure, gold doubloons and deadly savages – not to mention the one-legged Long John Silver, the most infamous pirate of all time!

One of the greatest adventure stories ever told

A rip-roaring tale of pirates, treasure and treachery

R.L. Stevenson’s best-loved books include Kidnapped

He wrote The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Product Details

Catalogue number

9403 in ROW Secondary Rewards Catalogue 2018/19

Series

Scholastic Classics

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407143637

Publisher

Scholastic

Date published

November 7th, 2013

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 8.3; Upper years; 12.0 points

Other details

288 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Packs

Scholastic Classics Pack x 22

usd prices

Price: $71.65

gbp prices

Price: £49.40

Series

Scholastic Classics

Author/Illustrator

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh. He suffered from illness throughout his life and had to spend large parts of his childhood in bed. As a result, he didn’t learn to read until he was seven or eight, but he loved to tell stories to his mother and nurse. Robert loved to travel and he spent a lot of time in his twenties travelling in Europe and writing about his experiences. When he was 26, Robert met an American woman called Fanny. They married in San Francisco in1880 and returned to Britain with Fanny’s twelve-year-old son Lloyd. That same year, during a rainy holiday in Scotland, Robert and Lloyd drew a treasure map for fun and it was this that inspired Robert to write Treasure Island. When the book was published in 1883 he dedicated it to Lloyd. In 1888 the family set off for a three-year-long tour of the South Pacific which eventually ended when they bought a house in Samoa. Robert was loved by the Samoan people and continued to write until the day he died, very suddenly, aged just 44.