Treasure Island

By Jewell Parker Rhodes

Three kids, a treasure map, and a dangerous chase through Manhattan's hidden history.

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336 pages

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Zane and his friends, Kiko and Jack, embark on a thrilling treasure hunt across Manhattan, guided by a mysterious map. As they delve into the city's hidden Black history, a rival skateboard crew shadows their every move. With trust in short supply and danger lurking, can they uncover the treasure before it's too late? Join them on a journey where history and adventure collide, and nothing is as it seems.

From the publisher

Bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes reimagines the classic novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson in this thrilling adventure set in modern-day Manhattan, in which three children must navigate the city’s hidden history, dodge a threatening crew of skater kids, and decide who they can really trust in order to hunt down a long-buried treasure. Three kids. One dog. And the island of Manhattan, laid out in an old treasure map. 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 about the buried history of Black New Yorkers of centuries past–and the gold that is hidden somewhere in those stories.As a vicious rival skateboard crew follows them around the city, Zane and his friends begin to wonder who they can really trust. And soon it becomes clear that treasure hunting is a dangerous business…Jewell Parker Rhodes has written a version of Treasure Island like none you’ve never seen–one that takes the reader through little-known Black history, and under the city of Manhattan itself.

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