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1) Flush
Author
Series
Juvenile volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
On a beautiful June day in 1965, a dozen girls-classmates at a picturesque Blue Ridge women's college-launched their homemade raft (inspired by Huck Finn's) on a trip down the Mississippi. It's Girls A-Go-Go Down the Mississippi read the headline in the Paducah, Kentucky, paper.
Thirty-five years later, four of those "girls" reunite to cruise the river again. This time it's on the luxury steamboat, The Belle of Natchez, and there's no publicity.
...Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1800s. with both her father and her uncle in jail on an assault charge, Maggie, her brother, and her ailing mother rush their barge along the Erie Canal to deliver their heavy cargo or lose everything.
Author
Series
First mountain man volume 21
Publisher
GraphicAudio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
On the rolling Missouri River a riverboat of fur traders, a U.S. Senator and Prussian royalty are all heading to the Yellowstone from St. Louis. Preacher's onboard because the nation's fate depends on the passengers landing safe and sound. But it won't be easy. Two beautiful women make a play for Preacher. So does a killer. So does a band of river pirates. No sooner does Preacher beat back these threats than the riverboat lands in the middle of a...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"There are two kinds of traps in the Old West. One is the kind that Preacher and his buddy, Charlie, use to catch a mountain-load of fur pelts. The other is the kind that Charlie steps into a trap set by a low-life gambler and his seductive partner in crime to swindle Charlie out of his fur money. Preacher hates to see a good friend get robbed. So he sets off after the grifters on a riverboat bound for New Orleans. First, he infiltrates the criminal...
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When he loses at the tables on the Delta Jack riverboat, professional gambler Abner Mason has one night to raise all the funds to pay off his debt to the most powerful man on the ship--if only he can stay alive long enough to do so.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
A World War II tale based on a true historical event follows the experiences of sixteen-year-old Scott and his friend, Adam, who while performing summer job duties on a ship on the St. Lawrence River discover that a German agent is on board.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
"Twain's firsthand portrait of the steamboat age and the science of riverboat piloting recalls the history of the Mississippi River, from its discovery by Europeans to the writer's own time." *** "Mark Twain's famous account of life on the Mississippi in the old steamboat days and his own experiences as a pilot. Its historical sketches, its frequent passages of vivid description, and its humorous episodes combine to make [this] a masterpiece of the...
Author
Series
Horrible Harry volume 13
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
The students in Miss Mickle's third-grade class enjoy a boat trip on the Connecticut River after a class discussion of ancestors reveals that Sidney and Ida both have connections to the sea.
12) Blood relations
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When a drought leads to the discovery of a mysterious sunken riverboat, genealogist Torie O'Shea investigates the murder of a college professor who was documenting the story, a situation complicated by the discovery of her half-sister.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
In 1806, the exploits of Jacky Faber continue as she heads west to avoid capture by the British and discovers adventure aboard a keelboat on the mighty Mississippi River.
Author
Publisher
Wordsworth Classics
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Three men in a boat: Three friends along with the dog, Montmorency, experience the hazards and vicissitudues of life in a boating expedition along the Thames.
Three men on the bummel: Three friends (sans dog, this time) venture on a bummel--a journey with no point except going out and returning at a given time--to Germany's Black Forest where they manage to disrupt the usually tranquil way of life of the inhabitants.
17) My first day
Author
Publisher
Make Me a World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 680L
Language
English
Description
"This is no ordinary first journey. The rainy season has come to the Mekong Delta, and An, a young Vietnamese boy, sets out alone in a wooden boat wearing a little backpack and armed only with a single oar. On the way, he is confronted by giant crested waves, heavy rainfall and eerie forests where fear takes hold of him. Although daunted by the dark unknown, An realizes that he is not alone and continues to paddle. He knows it will all be worth it...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 790L
Language
English
Description
A New York Harbor tugboat captain and his family take the tug up the Hudson River to pick up and tow the barge carrying the enormous Christmas tree that will be displayed at Rockefeller Center.
19) Along the river
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
AD 410L
Language
English
Description
"Boats of all shapes and sizes travel on the river, through the seasons, toward the sea. Who will you meet on the river?"--
20) River run
Author
Series
Forensic geology volume 5
Publisher
Toni Dwiggins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"There are plenty of ways to die in the Grand Canyon. Forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws investigate one way: trouble on the canyon's Colorado River. Stranded raft. Live vests unused. Rafters missing. The only clue to the fate of the rafters is a bag of pebbles caught by the bow line. Following that clue, the geologists uncover a hellish scheme. Not only are the rafters in peril, but the river itself is under attack. The race to...