Treasure Island: The Map: A Classic Pirate Adventure for Boys Ages 9–14, Grades 4–8 (Book 1)

Jim Hawkins is twelve years old when the sea captain arrives at his family’s clifftop inn. The man has money, rum, and enemies — and somewhere in his sea chest is the reason all three of them came together.

The Admiral Benbow sits alone on the English coast, wind-hammered and fog-soaked, and Jim has been running it alongside his ailing father long enough to know that strangers mean trouble. Billy Bones is the worst kind — a scarred, watchful man who pays in foreign gold and never takes his eyes off the road. He is hiding from something. When that something arrives in the form of Black Dog, then Blind Pew, and finally a gang of buccaneers tearing the inn apart in the dark, Jim discovers what Billy was protecting: a map. An island. A dead pirate’s entire buried fortune.

What follows is a voyage aboard the Hispaniola, under a squire who trusts everyone and a captain who trusts no one, toward an island that only one man alive has seen. That man is Long John Silver — the ship’s cook, one-legged, easy-smiling, who calls Jim “Hawkins” like they are old friends.

Jim is in an apple barrel in the dark when he learns what Long John Silver actually is.

Five honest men. Nineteen pirates. And Jim Hawkins, twelve years old, who has to decide what to do before the island comes into view.

For boys who need their classic adventure stories to earn every page — this is Treasure Island, retold for the reader who wants to live inside it.

For fans of classic adventure books for boys and books for boys pirate stories — swashbuckling adventure fiction that earns every chapter.

About the Series

Treasure Island: The Map is Book 1 of the Treasure Island series — an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s pirate adventure book for kids ages 9–14, produced as audiobook and ebook for the modern reader who has never had a worthy introduction to the greatest treasure hunt ever written.

This is boys historical fiction at its source — the novel that invented the genre. Classic adventure stories for boys, ya historical fiction for boys, and historical fiction homeschool families love: Stevenson delivers real setting, real danger, real consequence. A boy hero outthinking men twice his age. One of the great adventure classics for boys ever written, and the best of the epic adventure books for boys to bring to a new audience. Four books. An adventure book series for boys built on the foundation that made the genre.

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Grab your copy of Treasure Island: The Map and follow Jim aboard the Hispaniola.