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Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883.

Before you read: Pirates, fights, and death at sea. Better for older children reading with an adult.

Jim Hawkins finds a map in a dead sailor’s chest and leaves his mother’s inn for a voyage. Long John Silver, the cook, is charming and dangerous. The adults on the ship trust the wrong people. Jim makes brave choices and also reckless ones. Stevenson wrote a straight adventure: islands, mutiny, and a treasure that does not make anyone kinder. The book is the pattern for a lot of later pirate stories, including the ones that softened Silver.

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Chapters

  1. The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow
  2. Black Dog Appears and Disappears
  3. The Black Spot
  4. The Sea-chest
  5. The Last of the Blind Man
  6. The Captain’s Papers
  7. I Go to Bristol
  8. At the Sign of the Spy-glass
  9. Powder and Arms
  10. The Voyage
  11. What I Heard in the Apple-Barrel
  12. Council of War
  13. How I Began My Shore Adventure
  14. The First Blow
  15. The Man of the Island
  16. Silver’s Embassy
  17. The Attack
  18. How I Began My Sea Adventure
  19. The Ebb-tide Runs
  20. The Cruise of the Coracle
  21. I Strike the Jolly Roger
  22. Israel Hands
  23. “Pieces of Eight”
  24. In the Enemy’s Camp
  25. The Black Spot Again
  26. On Parole
  27. The Treasure-hunt--Flint’s Pointer
  28. The Fall of a Chieftain
  29. And Last

Public-domain text.

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