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Violence
Some
Pirate violence; murders; some swordfights and gun battles
Language
None
Period nautical language; entirely clean
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Rum — the lifeblood of the pirate world; moderate
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Entirely comfortable adventure territory; Long John Silver is charming enough that young readers often root for him
What this book is about
Young Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map in a dead pirate's sea chest, leading to an expedition to find the treasure of the infamous Captain Flint. But Long John Silver — the ship's cook, one of literature's most charismatic villains — has other plans. Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel invented many of the tropes of pirate fiction and remains one of the most perfectly constructed adventure stories in English.
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