I think that every boy (and every girl, for that matter) ought to read Treasure Island, and not just once, but often, because you not only learn about the sea and such old sea-dogs as the good Ben Gunn and the wicked Israel Hands, but about honor, even when all your friends think you have betrayed them. That is what happens to the boy Jim Hawkins in thi…
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