Mark Twain
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
Mark Twain's darkly comic short classic set in the antebellum South stands as a literary condemnation of slavery and racial inequality. Each enriched classic edition includes: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information. A chronology of the author's life and work. A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context. An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations....
4) Tom and Huck
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Tom and his friend Huck witness a midnight killing which leads to all kinds of difficulties when they swear not to reveal what they saw.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Film adaptation of Mark Twain's unforgettable saga of a mischievous youngster and a runaway slave on a wild expedition to freedom. As the pair take the ride of their lives down the treacherous Mississippi River, they run into an entertaining assortment of offbeat characters and face one challenging adventure after another.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 980L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A beautiful hardcover repackaging of this timeless classic from the publishers of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and in partnership with the Mark Twain Project. This definitive edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the only version of Mark Twain's masterpiece based on his complete manuscript, including the 663 pages found in a Los Angeles attic in 1990. Prepared by the Mark Twain Papers, the official archive of Sam Clemens's papers at the...
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Huckleberry Finn : The well-known tale of the carefree Huck Finn and his adventures on his raft with the runaway slave, Jim, as they sail down the Mississippi.
Adventures of Tom Sawyer : Tom tricks the neighborhood kids into whitewashing the fence for him, later, he runs away on a raft to become a pirate. Hen then attends his own funeral.
Lassie: the painted hills : Jonathan Harvey strikes gold and returns home to learn that his former partner has...
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Juan Lopez struggles to make an honest living and raise his son in the Los Angeles barrio. Threatened with deportation, dumped by his girlfriend and faced with losing his home, Juan seems unable to get a break when, suddenly, a mysterious stranger hands him a million-dollar check to keep but not spend with the promise of a special gift in one month's time.
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Huckleberry Finn and his friend, an escaped slave named Jim, face adventure as they travel down the Mississippi River; when Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn witness a murder, they try to decide whether to keep the truth a secret or reveal the identity of the killer.
Pub. Date
[2017], p1949, p1948
Language
English
Description
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court: a singing mechanic from 1912 finds himself in Arthurian Britain.
The emperor's waltz: a brash American gramophone salesman tries to get Emperor Franz Joseph's endorsement in turn-of-the-century Austria.
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Tom Trimble is a concept design engineer who has just created Hermes, a human-like robot who will pilot Stardust One, a new U.S. spacecraft designed to travel farther and faster than anything yet conceived. When the ship is about to launch, Trimble quickly boards the craft to reassure the robot when lightning strikes, igniting the rockets and blasting Stardust One into space at a relativistic speed.