Kidnapped
By: Robert Louis Stevenson ; with an introduction by Sid Hite.
Contributors: Hite, Sid.
Series: Scholastic classics
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Kidnapping victims -- Fiction; Disinheritance -- Fiction; Teenage boys -- Fiction; Jacobites -- Fiction; Scotland -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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 there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.