Name: Kidnapped
Rating: 3.833333333333333 (18 reviews)
ISBN: 9780141441795

Robert Louis Stevenson

Alistair Gray

Donald McFarlan

After being kidnapped by his villainous and miserly uncle, sixteen-year-old David Balfour escapes with the help of Jacobite fugitive Alan Breck and becomes involved in the struggle of Scottish Highlanders against English rule.

Kidnapped

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.

Taneil Casey

I loved this book, just as much, if not a little more than Treasure Island.  It follows David Balfour as he is kidnapped, shipwrecked, and falls in with an outlaw.  

One thing that I liked about this book, is that despite Alan and David's differences of politics, and other things, they got along extremely well.  It was a good example of not making a fuss over things that are not really important under the circumstances. 

Also, I really liked Alan Breck.

A. D. Knapp

Andrew John Kinney

My favorite book by RLS. Much better than Treasure Island, I think. But to digress, I love RLS' Requiem, written for his own tomb:

Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I lay me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

Dimitris Papastergiou

A nice adventure that reminds you of pirates stories and slavery. In general, all the stories from back then were pretty much the same, the ones that had to do with adventures from place to place and with treasures and journeys going wrong and liars and people getting backstabbed and back and forth. But, all in all I liked the character (even though naive), the plot, especially anything that had to do with his uncle was fun to read. And of course let's not forget the main reason I wanted to read it, it's set in the 18th century and the realism is really good on this one. It made me feel like I was there, so that takes it up a notch.

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