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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.
It's a lazy Mississippi River town, a place where a boy can learn magical cures for warts, turn a fence-painting job into a leisurely con game, get lost in a cave, escape to an island, or attend his own funeral. It's a time when hooky is punished with a simple swatting and pockets bulge with firecrackers and dead rats; a time...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 24
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
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Alden children travel on a Mississippi paddle-wheel steamer to visit an old family friend in his cabin near Hannibal, Missouri, and try to discover who is responsible for the mysterious activities near the house.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
This classic story of a homeless waif is world-renowned for being much more than a charming tale of boyhood adventures! As Huck and runaway slave Jim make their way down the mighty Mississippi, Huck is forced to ponder the nature of friendship and to find a sense of his own moral vision.
7) Swift rivers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
No longer welcome at home, eighteen-year-old Chris Dahlberg sets out to drive timber down the spring floodwaters of the mighty Mississippi River to the markets in St. Louis. Filled with danger and adventure, this book shows Chris's struggle to achieve his destiny.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Along a magic-saturated stretch of the Mississippi River near Blue Wing, Minnesota, twelve-year-old Claire and her bullying cousin Duke are drawn into an adventure involving Bodacious Deepthink the Great Rock Troll, a helpful fairy, and a group of trolls searching for their fathers.
Author
Series
Wishbone classics volume 11
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The classic story about the young boy Tom Sawyer and his adventures along the banks of the Mississippi.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, Mark Twain, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Classics—designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original classic. These classics...
Author
Series
Your Trixie Belden library volume 15
Language
English
Description
The Bob-Whites take a trip to St. Louis on a business trip with Mr. Wheeler with thoughts of seeing space ships and re-living the adventures of Huckleberry Finn. But mystery calls when Trixie finds some strange papers in the waste basket of their room and they are followed everywhere by a mysterious stranger who wants his papers back.
15) Tom Sawyer
Author
Publisher
Globe Book Co
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.
16) The hidden gold
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Marie-Grace can't wait to begin her journey up the Mississippi River with her father. The steamboat they're traveling on is the biggest and fanciest boat Marie-Grace has ever seen. It's crowded with all sorts of interesting passengers, including Wilhelmina Newman, a girl her age. Wilhelmina is traveling alone, and she's carrying a secret in one of her trunks--clues to hidden Gold Rush treasure. Marie-Grace and Wilhelmina have to unravel the clues...
17) Flood!
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
One fictional Midwestern family is forced to leave their home during the flooding of the Mississippi River in 1993.
Author
Series
Editorial Andrés Bello volume 31
Publisher
A. Bello
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
Español