Essential Classics are a quick way into some of the most exciting classic novels. Includes illustrations, a glossary and a reading quiz.

Retold for younger readers, Kidnapped is set in Scotland in 1751. It tells the story of David Balfour, a newly-orphaned young boy who is cheated out of his inheritance by his uncle and kidnapped. Amid the conflict between the Jacobites and supporters of King George II, David is falsely accused of murder and must flee for his life!