Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751... (The Scribner Series for Young People)

x, 326 pp. Four pages of publisher ads follow text. Color frontispiece, color paste-down on front board, woodcut plates. 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.