Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751... (Scribner Illustrated Classics for Younger Readers)

289 pp. Color illustrated title page, color plates, illustrated endpapers by N.C. Wyeth, fold-out map of David Balfour's route. When young David Balfour's father dies and leaves him in poverty, he tracks down his Uncle Ebenezer to seek his inheritance. But his uncle is a mean, nasty man with a dark family secret. David finds himself in terrible danger when he is kidnapped and taken prisoner on board a ship bound for slavery - he must escape.