The Treasure of Savage Island

by Lenore Hart

Memorable characters and nonstop action bring history alive in this rousing historical tale of shipwrecks, pirates, treasure, and an unlikely friends hip between an escaped slave and a penniless... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525470921
• ISBN13: 9780525470922
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Dutton Children's Books
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

excellent historical novel

Lenore Hart captures the midatlantic marshlands wonderfully in this novel of piracy, slavery, and adolescent dreams. Set shortly after the Revolutionary War, when the British are still very much enemies, fifteen-year-old Molly Savage and Rafe, a runaway slave, deal with lost treasure and attacking picaroons while confronting the very real limitations of their respective life situations. The setting is very real, and the characters satisfyingly solid. Midway through, I wondered at how they would find solutions to seemingly impossible problems, but the book resolved both realistically and hopefully. So many historical novels for kids focus on New England; hurrah for this book set in one of the other former colonies.