About This Book

Derring-do and lords in the Greenwood: Young Dick Shelton learns that his guardian, the turncoat Sir Daniel, was the one responsible for his father's death. (He also learns that the boy who accompanied him bravely through the forest is really a young women — and his intended bride!) But now he is a fugitive, wounded, and in danger of his life, and she is Sir Daniel's prisoner in the castle! Will he win through? Never doubt it!

About Robert Louis Stevenson

(1850-1894) Despite the fact that the Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist suffered from acutely poor health all his life, he traveled widely, going to America in 1879 and lived there for a year while he wooed and married his American wife. They journeyed across Europe and, after being diagnosed with tuberculosis, to the south seas where they lived until his death at the age of forty-four.

In addition to numerous essays, travel stories, and novels -- including the still-familiar "Treasure Island," "The Black Arrow," "Kidnapped," "The Master of Ballantrae," and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," he also wrote the beautiful and evocative poems collected as "A Child's Garden of Verses."