The timeless story of adventure, loyalty and villainy, gloriously illustrated in full colour and adapted to a reading age of 8. Barrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers.
. This book is part of a HiLo reading scheme, combining high interest relative to the required reading skill.
There are 64 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2007 by Barrington Stoke Ltd .
Tom Veitch has written numerous Star Wars titles including both Dark Empire series. He has also worked on Animal Man and The Light and Darkness War. Cam Kennedy has drawn numerous Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper stories for 2000 AD. She also worked with Tom Veitch, not only on both Star Wars: Dark Empire series but also The Light and Darkness War. Alan Grant has written close to two hundred Batman stories, scripted Judge Dredd and a dozen other SF series for 2000AD, and supplied the text for the Terminator graphic novels.
This book contains the following story:
Kidnapped
On a stormy night off the coast of Scotland, young David Balfour faces his most terrifying test yet. He's been double-crossed by his wicked uncle, tricked into a sea voyage and sold into slavery. When the dashing Alan Breck Stewart comes aboard, he finds a brave friend at least, and the pair fight back against their treacherous, black-hearted shipmates. But then the ship hits a reef, it's every man for himself, and David must battle against the raging sea itself!
