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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
880L
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1857, while helping to conceal a runaway slave on her father's Mississippi River steamboat, twelve-year-old Libby looks to God for support and hopes that her friend Caleb will let her join the Underground Railroad.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of the Boxcar Children's "The Haunted Cabin Mystery," in which 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.
9) Flood
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
One fictional Midwestern family is forced to leave their home during the flooding of the Mississippi River in 1993.
11) Tom Sawyer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1981.
Language
English
Description
A simplified retelling of the classic story of the mischievous 19th-century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, as they run away from home, witness a murder, and find treasure in a cave.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
AD 930L
Language
English
Description
"In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark Twain combines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer is resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious. In a series of adventures along the banks of the Mississippi, he usually manages to come out on top. From petty triumphs over his friends and over his long-suffering Aunt Polly, to his intervention in a murder trial,...
13) Ferret Island
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Stranded on an island in the middle of the Mississippi River, fourteen-year-old Will Finn discovers a race of giant ferrets and a reclusive author who plans to use the animals in a plot against McDonald's.
Author
Series
Trixie Belden volume 15
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While on a trip to St. Louis, fourteen-year-old Trixie Belden discovers some mysterious papers in her hotel room and soon realizes that she and her friends are being followed as they cruise in a towboat down the Mississippi River.
16) Huckleberry Finn
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
This is the retelling of the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft in the mid-nineteenth century.
Author
Series
Lucky Luke adventures volume 79
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Passing through New Orleans, Lucky Luke stumbles upon a heated argument between two steamboat captains. The argument soon turns into a wager: whichever boat reaches Minneapolis first after steaming up the Mississippi will win the exclusive rights to the route. Captain Barstow quickly invites Luke to travel on his Daisy Belle, fearing that his opponent will cheat. And while he's not wrong, the biggest danger to both boats remains Old Man River himself...
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