The Treasure of Savage Island

by Lenore Hart

Befriended by thirteen-year-old Molly, a poor island girl, after being stranded on an island, Rafe, an escaped slave, must help his new companion fight off the picaroons who have come to raid Savage Island, in an exciting adventure featuring pirates, traitors, and hidden treasures.

Genres: Young Adult, Fiction

Hardcover

First published August 18, 2005

About the author

Lenore Hart is the author of the novels Waterwoman, Ordinary Springs, The Treasure of Savage Island, Becky: The Life and Loves of Becky Thatcher, and The Raven's Bride. A B&N Discover book author and Shirley Jackson Award finalist, she's also series editor of The Night Bazaar Speculative fiction anthologies. Hart is fiction faculty at the Ossabaw Island Writers Retreat in Savannah. She lives in a somewhat haunted house on the Eastern Shore of Virginia with novelist David Poyer and some very entitled cats and peahens.

Reviews

[Zabdiel Ruiz · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think that who ever reads this book would love it. It's about the adventure of two kids that face pirates to save Savage Island(their home). The pirates are trying to find a long lost treasure left on the island by Britain after the revolution. The two kids need the help of the farmers to find the treasure before the pirates, and win their freedom.

[Patricia · Rating 3 out of 5]

As One Book Bradford is bring author Lenore Hard to our town next month, I wanted to read as much of her work as possible. This is a children's book,but I enjoyed it very much and expect that young teenagers do as well.

[Summer · Rating 2 out of 5]

Eh, it was just okay. The author never successfully got me excited about what was going on in the story, and the characters never grew on me. The writing style feels dated. It's not something I really wanted or expected from a current action-adventure story.

[Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another book that should have gotten more attention. Lovely writing and pacing and setting.

[Toni C.]

This book talks about two kids perspective one of them is a slave and one of them is a daughter of a slave owner and how their is a lady who is trying to marry the dad of the girl but only to get hints of were the treasure is at to give the info that she gets to the pirates who are trying to steal the treasure but they end up shooting the dad and then they take him to a doctor and then the the pirates capture the boy and then they use him to attack the island but he escapes and then at final the girl found the treasure and then she shares it with the boy.