Treasure Island Treasure Island, or the mutiny of the Hispaniola, credited to the pseudonym "Captain George North". It was first published as a book on 14 November 1883, by Cassell & Co. An old sailor, calling himself "the captain"—real name Billy Bones—comes to lodge at the Admiral Benbow Inn on the West English coast during the mid-18th-century, paying the innkeeper's son, Jim Hawkins, a few pennies to keep a lookout for "a one-legged seafaring man". A former shipmate with intact legs, but lacking two fingers, shows up to confront Billy about sharing his treasure map. After running the stranger off in a
The Orphan of Ellis Island The Orphan of Ellis Island The Orphan of Ellis Island: A Time Travel Adventure is a 1997 children's novel by Elvira Woodruff. The events of the novel take place at Ellis Island, where a boy, Dominic, is on a class trip with his new class shortly after being placed in a new foster home, and eventually finds his way into a janitorial closet. He falls asleep. When he wakes up, there is no one there. Lonely and afraid, he picks up display telephones talking to the recordings that are the voices of immigrants who talk about their lives and their