Book Descriptions
for Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
This edition of a classic work of fiction first published by Scribners in 1886 reprints the N. C. Wyeth paintings of the 1913 edition. New plates were made from many of the original paintings in order to ensure faithful reproduction. (11 years and older)
CCBC Choices 1982 . © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1982. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
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.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.