A High Wind in Jamaica
1929 · 279 pages
A hurricane wrecks their Jamaican home, so the Bas-Thornton children are shipped to England and captured by pirates. Hughes strips childhood of its innocence, and the pirates prove no match for them.
★ 5.0
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Treasure Island
1883 · 336 pages
Hiding in an apple barrel, a boy overhears the ship's cook planning mutiny. Stevenson invented the pirate everyone pictures: Long John Silver's parrot and missing leg, the treasure map marked with crosses.
★ 6.6