David Balfour and Alan Breck, in his feathered hat and blue coat, lie flat atop a huge sun-baked rock in the Highland heather, watching a column of redcoat soldiers pass below by a rushing stream — Secuestrado.

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Kidnapped

Secuestrado

A boy comes into his inheritance, is sold onto a ship by his own uncle, and has to fight his way home across the Scottish Highlands.

Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 adventure, told for Level 3. David Balfour is kidnapped and shipped off to be sold into slavery, survives a shipwreck, and finds an unlikely companion in a Highland outlaw wanted for a murder neither of them committed.

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