{"product_id":"treasure-island-runaway-gold","title":"Treasure Island: Runaway Gold","description":"\u003cp\u003eBestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes reimagines the classic novel Treasure Island 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\/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\u003eJewell Parker Rhodes has written a version of Treasure Island like none you’ve never seen—one that takes the reader through little-known Black history, and under the city of Manhattan itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quill Tree Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50941926244659,"sku":"9780062998354","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/6181\/5859\/files\/9780062998354.jpg?v=1736801545","url":"https:\/\/www.bluebirdcrozet.com\/products\/treasure-island-runaway-gold","provider":"Bluebird \u0026 Company Crozet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}