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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
370L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
GN 980L
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Classics. Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
630L
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
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
153 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the adventures of a nineteenth-century boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
150 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
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...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
La universalidad de esta obra de Mark Twain se debe a su gran manejo de la prosa, al uso admirable del vocabulario coloquial y por sobre todo, a su extraordinario sentido del humor. Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer es un texto plagado de sopresas y aventuras, con personajes entranables, tomados de la vida real, que protagonizan una historia increible y aluciante. Tom y Huck, dos amigos inseparables aunque distintos entre si, y la pequena Becky, de quien...
11) Huckleberry Finn
Publisher
Acclaim Books
Pub. Date
©1997
Physical Desc
62 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Retells the classic story of a young boy traveling down the Mississippi River with an escaped slave, as a graphic novel with study guide.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1870, Thomas Leathers was captain of the Natchez. Captain Leathers believed it was the fastest steamboat on the Mississippi River. Captain Cannon of the Robert E. Lee offered to race the Natchez from New Orleans, Louisiana, to St. Louis, Missouri. Twelve-year-old Benjamin Brown, a passenger on the Natchez, wants very much to win the race. But from the moment the Robert E. Lee leaves New Orleans early, it's clear that Captain Cannon...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
215 pages : illustration, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1860, eleven-year-old Becky Thatcher, new to St. Petersburg, Missouri, joins the boys at school in a bet to steal from the Widow Douglas in hopes of fulfilling a promise to have adventures that she made her brother Jon before he died.
14) Mama's window
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
89 p. : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
His dying mother's insistence leads an eleven-year-old black child to be raised by his disabled uncle, in the swamps of the Mississippi Delta in the early 1900s, and to recall her tireless work to fund a stained glass window for her church.
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
121 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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
Publisher
Harcourt Inc
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
1020L
Physical Desc
611 pages ; 22 cm.
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
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (approximately 1 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Designed to encourage children to read original classical literature either on their own or with the help of the more experienced readers in their lives, this story is a simple retelling of the adventures of Tom and his friends, who witness a murder by the villainous Injun Joe and sail the Mississippi River pretending to be pirates.
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