Kidnapped (ebook)

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This classic novel has been abridged and adapted into 10 illustrated chapters. This format is ideal for bilingual education - people learning English as a second language (ESL), English Language Learners (ELL), people of any age intending to improve reading skills and students for whom the original version would be too long or difficult. This learning product is high-interest, low-readability. Readers of this version will improve comprehension, fluency and vocabulary.

I will begin the story of my adventures with a morning early in June of 1751. I closed the door of my home in Essendean, Scotland for the last time . At the age of seventeen , I stood ready to find a new home. My mother had been dead for a number of years. My father was dead only a few months. Mr. Campbell, the minister of the town church, walked with me to the river. He handed me a letter that my father had written. "You must take this letter to the house of Shaws near Cramond," said Mr. Campbell. "Give it to your uncle, Ebenezer Balfour." My name being David Balfour, I was now to know my true family background. The Shaws were an old rich Scottish family . I wondered what my poor schoolmaster father had to do with the house of Shaws. Mr. Campbell gave me a small bag. In it was a Bible and some money. He told me to behave and show a good example of my country ways. We said a sad good-bye. Then, with a squeeze of my arm, he turned and walked quickly away. I walked on. I did not feel like a lost stray boy. I felt like a knight charging ahead to meet things I did not yet know. At the end of two days, I stopped walking at the top of a hill. My country home was far behind me. I looked down with wonder at the great sea and the capital city of Scotland, Edinburgh .0