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Sail the seas to quench your thirst for gold in this tale of piracy, adventure and betrayal. Help students better understand the novel with in-depth comprehension and vocabulary questions. Match the characters introduced in the novel to their descriptions. Draw the map that Jim finds in Billy's chest. Summarize what Jim heard in the apple barrel. Explain who the character of Ben Gunn is, and how he ended up on the island. Using multiple choice, identify...
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Treasure Island (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Making the reading experience fun!
Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis
*Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols
*A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides are...
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Jim e seus companheiros navegam em busca do tesouro do lendário capitão Flint. Cheios de confiança, eles nem imaginam que estão à mercê de bandidos sanguinários. Agora, só muita astúcia e coragem conseguirão salvá-los de Long John Silver, o pirata mais esperto que já cruzou os mares... Suspense e aventura num romance que há mais de cem anos fascina leitores de todas as idades.
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When Billy Bones, and old sea captain gives young Jim Hawkins a treasure map the adventure begins. Jim goes to sea looking for the treasure. The pirate, Long John Silver knows about the map and plans to steal the treasure after Jim and the others find it. Once they reach Treasure Island a fight breaks out between the crew and the pirates. The pirates are defeated and they decide to join forces and looks for the treasure. Eventually they find the treasure...
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Take 10 minutes to enjoy this retelling of the classic story about a boy and his encounter with an infamous pirate which leads to a quest for buried treasure. Treasure Island is the newest addition to the 10 Minute Classics series, a collection of books that indulge a lifelong love for reading.
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Pay heed, good mates. Let nary a mother's son speak of the treasure map bestowed upon cabin boy Jim Hawkins. Be as silent as the grave. To the plank if ye as much as breathe a word to that peg legged seadog known as Long John Silver. The ideal match of larger-than-life role and a legendary actor, this lavish 1972 version of Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure classic stars Orson Welles as Silver, swaggering and conniving in grand skull-'n'-bones tradition....
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When Billy Bones, an old seaman came to live with young Jim Hawkins and his mother in their Inn, Jim had no idea he was to get into one great big, dangerous adventure. One morning, Billy Bones was found dead in his room. Jim and his mother opened his trunk and found an old map. It looked like a treasure map. Jim took the map to their friends, Dr. Livesey and town squire, Trelawney. They deduced that the map was of the island where a deceased pirate,...
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Jim Hawkins, the son of an innkeeper, longs for adventure. One of the inn's guests, a coarse old bully named Billy Bones, reveals a map showing the whereabouts of buried treasure. After Bones dies, Jim and his mother flee with the map to Squire John Trelawney, outwitting other pirates who were chasing Bones. With Trelawney's friend Dr. Livesey, the squire charters a schooner carrying a band of pirates led by Long John Silver. Excitement and heroic...
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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...
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Before Captain Jack Sparrow and The Pirates of the Caribbean, there were Treasure Island and Kidnapped. Two novels of derring-do and adventure among pirates on the high seas. Thrill with our young heroes as they swash buckle through one adventure after another. Collected here together are the two books that all other pirate adventures are, measured against.
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"Treasure Island: The Parrot's Perspective" is the third book in the "Classics Reimagined: A Comedic Twist" series, offering a unique and humorous retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic.Narrated by the witty and mischievous parrot, Captain Squawks, this novella invites readers into a world where the familiar tale of treasure and piracy is infused with lighthearted humor and unexpected twists.From the bustling port of Bristol to the mysterious...
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The famous adventure novel, Treasure Island, written by Robert Louis Stevenson in a new beautiful Pook Press edition, with illustrations by N. C. Wyeth
A swashbuckling tale of pirates, maps and treasure. The story begins with an old sailor who appears an inn on the west English coast, talking of a sea chest and secret treasure map. When the sailor dies, his charge is left with Jim, the innkeeper's son, who discovers the chest and map. In no time,...
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In 1971 Alec Crawford is determined to make his fortune from ship salvage. Early attempts lead nowhere until he teams up with a new partner, Simon Martin. Diving in Hebridean waters, they explore remains of the Spanish Armada, and the wreck of the SS Politician, the vessel made famous in the film Whisky Galore! But money is scarce and irregular, and the work is fraught with danger and disappointment.
Until they hear of one of the most incredible...
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Open Treasure Island, and you expect to find a thrilling adventure tale of pirates, shipwrecks, and lost booty. But if you join Story Grid writer and editor Leslie Watts in analyzing Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel, you'll also discover timeless lessons about the craft of storytelling.
First published in 1883, Treasure Island offers readers irresistible life-or-death stakes and a compelling coming-of-age arc for young hero Jim Hawkins....
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Two of the greatest novels of the 19th Century are collected together in this double-feature by master storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson!
First, the swashbuckling epic tale of high-seas adventure "Treasure Island." When young Jim Hawkins discovers a map to the legendary pirate Captain Flint's buried treasure, he embarks on an ocean voyage to retrieve it with the help of Squire Trelawney, Doctor Livesey and the mischievous sea-cook Long John Silver....
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, the classic adventure of young Jim Hawkins as he battles pirates to get his hands on the coveted gold. Treasure Island became a literary classic soon after its publication and is largely responsible for traditional artistic depictions of pirates that continue to this day. Stevenson, now one of the top 30 most translated authors of all time, thrived from the success...
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Treasure Island volume 2
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Young Jim Hawkins is the only one who can successfully get a schooner to a legendary Island known for buried treasure. But aboard the ship is a mysterious cook named John Silver (Emmy winner Eddie Izzard, The Riches), whose true motivation on the journey challenges Jim's trust in the entire crew. This is an exciting and atmospheric new take on the definitive pirate action adventure of reckless buccaneers, buried fortunes and a friendship forged in...
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Treasure Island volume 1
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Young Jim Hawkins is the only one who can successfully get a schooner to a legendary Island known for buried treasure. But aboard the ship is a mysterious cook named John Silver (Emmy winner Eddie Izzard, The Riches), whose true motivation on the journey challenges Jim's trust in the entire crew. This is an exciting and atmospheric new take on the definitive pirate action adventure of reckless buccaneers, buried fortunes and a friendship forged in...
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