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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
He was Sam Clemens, steamboat pilot, before he was Mark Twain, famous author. His better-known name originated with the lingo of navigation, and much of his writing was informed by his shipboard adventures on one of the world's great rivers. In this classic of American literature, Twain offers lively recollections ranging from his salad days as a novice pilot to views from the passenger deck in the twilight of the river culture's heyday. Under the...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
370L
Language
English
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,...
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Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1931
Physical Desc
525 p. illus. 21 cm
Language
English
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This is a fascinating history of the Great Central Plains of America and how they have bent and molded American life, destroying traditions, and influencing human institutions in a most singular manner. Professor Webb in this brilliant book shows how this area, with its three dominant characteristics, affected the various peoples--nations as well as individuals--who came to take it, occupy it, and grow roots in its soil; for this land--dry, flat and...
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Español
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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...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 303 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1927, as the Mississippi River threatens to burst its banks and engulf all in its path, two federal revenue agents investigate the disappearance of two fellow agents on the trail of a local bootlegger.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
524 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1927, the Mississippi River swept across an area roughly equal in size to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont combined, leaving water as deep as thirty feet on the land stretching from Illinois and Missouri south to the Gulf of Mexico. Close to a million people - in a nation of 120 million - were forced out of their homes. Some estimates place the death toll in the thousands. The Red Cross fed nearly 700,000 refugees for months....
10) Vicksburg, 1863
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
80 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the 17th century French Explorer who led the first European expedition to track the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.
15) The La Salle Expedition on the Mississippi River: a lost manuscript of Nicolas de La Salle, 1682
Author
Publisher
Texas State Historical Association
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
xv, 175 p. : ill., maps ;hardcover 27 cm.
Language
English
16) La Salle
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Pub
Pub. Date
©2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Fountas & Pinnell
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Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, portraits ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a short children's history of explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet and describes their exploration of the Mississippi River Valley, encounters with the native tribes along the way, and legacies.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park excavates the brief, tragic life of a lost Mormon city, demonstrating that the Mormons are essential to understanding American history writ large. Using newly accessible sources, Park recreates the Mormons' 1839 flight from Missouri to Illinois. There, under the charismatic leadership of Joseph Smith, they founded Nauvoo, which shimmered briefly-but Smith's challenge to democratic traditions, as well as his...
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