Treasure Island: Runaway Gold -- Jewell Parker Rhodes

<p><strong>Bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes reimagines the classic novel <em>Treasure Island</em> 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. </strong></p><p>Three kids. One dog. And the island of Manhattan, laid out in an old treasure map. </p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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...</p><p><strong>Jewell Parker Rhodes has written a version of <em>Treasure Island</em> like none you've never seen--one that takes the reader through little-known Black history, and under the city of Manhattan i