{"product_id":"9780062998354","title":"Treasure Island : Runaway Gold by Jewell Parker Rhodes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes reimagines the classic novel \u003cem\u003eTreasure Island\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree kids. One dog. And the island of Manhattan, laid out in an old treasure map. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZane 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJewell Parker Rhodes has written a version of \u003cem\u003eTreasure Island\u003c\/em\u003e like none you've never seen one that takes the reader through little-known Black history, and under the city of Manhattan itself. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56222388355445,"sku":"9780062998354","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780062998354.jpg?v=1762207811","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780062998354","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}