The MCT edition of Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson is reproduced in its entirety and includes Michael’s “language illustrations”—close-ups of poetic techniques, four-level analyses of interesting grammar, and comments about writing strategies. Challenging vocabulary is defined at the bottom of each page.

Set in eighteenth-century Scotland against a backdrop of real places and true historical events, Kidnapped is narrated by and centers around seventeen-year-old David Balfour, who is kidnapped by his conniving uncle and who befriends an unlikely ally in the quest to regain his freedom and his inheritance.