Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson is an exciting, swashbuckling adventure that has retained its appeal to young and old, despite its being well over a century old. Young Jim Hawkins and his parents first meet a strange man who comes to their inn and wants a room. He's a strange sea faring man who seems a bit crazy, and has an unhealthy addiction to rum, as well as a fearful fixation on the idea of a sea faring man with one leg whom he constantly warns Jim about.

When his father dies of sickness, Jim and his mother are left alone to deal with their odd guest, but when their strange guest also dies, apparently of fear after a frightening confrontation with a strange blind man, both mother and son know they need to go for help, especially when they see mean looking sailors coming toward their inn. They run for it before the pirates can get to them, but they don't leave their inn empty handed. They take a strange map they found in their strange guest's sea chest. Is it a treasure map? Their friends, including Doctor Livesey thinks so. This begins Jim's adventure with Doctor Livesey, Squire Trelawney, Captain Smollet, and the crew of the Hispaniola, including John Silver, who at first seems a descent man, but then Jim discovers a different, sinister side to him. Will Jim and the good guys be able to escape from Silver's wicked plans, or will they end up one of his many victims?