Silver Return to Treasure Island

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I finished listening to Silver Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion. Big Warning: there is some violence and several sad parts. Cliffhanger ending. Spoiler Below. In this book, Jim Hawkins has a son named Jim Hawkins Jr. The son hears all about treasure island from his dad. His dad owns an inn. His mother died in child birth. One night Jim Jr. sees a boat come ashore. He goes to see who it is. It's a girl named Natty. She tells him that her father has requested Jim to come with her to see her father. Her father is Long John Silver. He also requested for Jim to steal the map from his dad. He goes to meet him and finds out Long John Silver is in bad shape. Long John Silver wants him and Natty to go back to treasure island to get the silver that was left on the island. He already made arrangements and decided Jim and Natty should hide who they are from the rest of the crew. Jim does steal the map and goes with Natty to Treasure Island. Once there, they find out the pirates that were left there were still alive and there was another ship there on island. That ship had crashed there. On that ship were slaves which were mistreated by the pirates. Jim and Natty rescues one slave which was in a pit. The slave talks about snakes on the island which becomes a plan of attack later on. Natty and the Scotland, the slave, go to the pirate camp alone. They get captured by the pirates. The pirates try to kill Natty by throwing her into a valley of bones, but she lives and she finds where the silver is hidden. Meanwhile the captain and Jim get the snakes and decide to save Natty and the slaves. But in the fight, the captain is killed. Jim ends up being in charge. They do free the slaves and they fight the pirates. Natty shows up and she kills one of the pirates. Scotland releases the snakes on the pirates. They get the silver and try to head back to England. But they go into a hurricane. They go back past Treasure Island and land into Spanish America. I loved this book. I'm reading next The New World by Andrew Motion. It is the sequel to this book.