Ninth Ward

Paradise on Fire

Towers Falling

Pirate Island

Flight of the Hawk: World of Adventure Series, Book 18

Rising Water (Aladdin Fiction)

The Island of Secrets: The Adventure Story of two daring Girls

Forests

Bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes reimagines the classic novel Treasure Island  by Robert Louis Stevenson in this thrilling adventure set in modern-day Manhattan, in which three children must navigate the city’s hidden history, dodge a threatening crew of skater kids, and decide who they can really trust in order to hunt down a long-buried treasure.  Three kids. One dog. And the island of Manhattan, laid out in an old treasure map. Zane is itching for an adventure that will take him away from his family’s boarding house in Rockaway, Queens. So when he is entrusted with a real treasure map, leading to a spot somewhere in Manhattan, Zane wastes no time in riding the ferry over to the city to start the search with his friends Kiko and Jack and his dog, Hip-Hop. Through strange coincidence, they meet a man who is eager to help them find the John, a sailor who knows all about the buried history of Black New Yorkers of centuries past—and the gold that is hidden somewhere in those stories. As a vicious rival skateboard crew follows them around the city, Zane and his friends begin to wonder who they can really trust. And soon it becomes clear that treasure hunting is a dangerous business… Jewell Parker Rhodes has written a version of Treasure Island like none you’ve never seen—one that takes the reader through little-known Black history, and under the city of Manhattan itself. 

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Ninth Ward

Jewell Parker Rhodes, 2010

Paradise on Fire

Jewell Parker Rhodes, 2021

Towers Falling

Jewell Parker Rhodes, 2016

Pirate Island

Katie L. Carroll, 2018

Flight of the Hawk: World of Adventure Series, Book 18

Gary Paulsen, 1998

Rising Water (Aladdin Fiction)

P.J. Petersen, 2002

The Island of Secrets: The Adventure Story of two daring Girls

Martin Freinatis, 2023

Forests

Nadia Higgins, 2017