Treasure Island: Runaway Gold (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780062998354)

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.

Author: Jewell Parker Rhodes
ISBN-10: 0062998358
ISBN-13: 9780062998354
Publisher: Quill Tree Books
Language: English
Published: 10/03/2023
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.20d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.4
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 522346 / Treasure Island: Runaway Gold


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 08/01/2023 pg. 53
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 09/11/2023