Kidnapped (Penguin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson porcelain birds The Secret Pool (Kirkus starred

The Secret Pool (Kirkus starred review) and The Secret Bay

But both our craving to be known and our ability to create beauty have been marred by trauma and shame

and how it felt to send your little buddy off to school for the first time

loved well by a noble mother and ex-pirate grandfather

Kidnapped (Penguin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson porcelain birds The Secret Pool (Kirkus starredAt once a rollicking adventure story and an earnest political allegory Orphaned and penniless, David Balfour sets out to find his last living relative, miserly and reclusive Uncle Ebenezer. But Ebenezer is far from welcoming, and David narrowly escapes being murdered before he is kidnapped and imprisoned on a ship bound for the Carolinas. When the ship is wrecked, David, along with the fiery rebel Alan Breck, makes his way back across the treacherous