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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
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is wrong and, after investigating, learns that her love of automata and other machines make her the only one who can set things right.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
A year after moving to their farm in the Ozarks, Laura and Almanzo Wilder and their young daughter, Rose, have settled into their new home with a successful vegetable harvest and the beginnings of an apple orchard.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
GN 980L
Language
English
Appears on list
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...
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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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Starfire Books
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
162 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When their widowed mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1994]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
286 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Laura and Almanzo Wilder and their eight-year-old daughter Rose continue to work to make Rocky Ridge farm in Missouri their new home.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
United by blood, divided by time, will three orphan train siblings ever find one another again? Orphaned in a tenement fire, three Irish-immigrant children are sent to Missouri to be adopted. Despite eight-year-old Maelle's desperate attempts to keep her siblings together, each child is taken by a different family. Yet Maelle vows that she will never stop searching for her brother and sister...and that they will be together one day in the future....
13) Torn away
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a tornado that has devastated her hometown of Elizabeth, Missouri, sixteen-year-old Jersey Cameron struggles to overcome her grief as she is sent to live with her only surviving relatives.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1993]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
353 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1894 Laura Ingalls Wilder, her husband, and her seven-year-old daughter Rose leave the Ingalls family in Dakota and make the long and difficult journey to Missouri to start a new life. From the time of the first publication of the Little House books in the 1930's and 40's, millions of readers have grown up with Laura In galls and her sisters as Pa led the family from the Big Woods of Wisconsin across the plains and Indian country to South Dakota....
17) Almost perfect
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With his mother working long hours and in pain from a romantic break-up, eighteen-year-old Logan feels alone and unloved until a zany new student arrives at his small-town Missouri high school, keeping a big secret.
Author
Series
Publisher
Starry Forest Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Buried treasure, island hide-outs, and neighborhood pranks--it's always an adventure with Tom Sawyer! Mark Twain's classic Adventures of Tom Sawyer is finally available to younger readers thanks to this thoughtful picture book adaptation. Art by David Leonard seamlessly complements this American classic while infusing it with fresh colors for a crisp new look."--
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