{"product_id":"2940150124936","title":"The Coral Island","description":"Fifteen-year-old Ralph, mischievous young Peterkin and clever, brave Jack are shipwrecked on a coral reef with only a telescope and a broken pocketknife between them. At first the island seems a paradise, with its plentiful foods and wealth of natural wonders. But then a party of cannibals arrives, and after that a pirate ship...what is to become of them?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eR. M. Ballantyne (24 April 1825 – 8 February 1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. At the age of 16 he went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. He returned to Scotland in 1847, and published his first book the following year, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North America. For some time he was employed by Messrs Constable, the publishers, but in 1856 he gave up business for the profession of literature, and began the series of adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly associated.","brand":"Delmarva Publications, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47075724558576,"sku":"2940150124936","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150124936_p0.jpg?v=1763738683","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150124936","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}