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Birdie Wainwright, seventy-two, isn't concerned about seeing things that others can't. For a woman who still climbs mountains and likes to tango, the impractical visions brought on by macular degeneraton are just another gift from God, adding more adventure to life. Then one day she sidesteps an imaginary boulder and tumbles down the stairs, a broken ankle. She must convalesce at her son's home. A story about family, reconciliation, and hearing from...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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GN 980L
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English
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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...
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"From Percival Everett--a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards--comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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In Robert Coover's Huck Out West, also "wrote by Huck," the boys escape "sivilization" and "light out for the Territory, riding for the famous but short-lived Pony Express, then working as scouts for both sides in the war. They are suddenly separated when Tom decides he'd rather own civilization than leave it, returning east with his new wife, Becky Thatcher, to learn the law from her father. Huck, abandoned and "dreadful lonely," hires himself out...
7) Finn
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Lexile measure
1150L
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English
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Relates the story of the life of Huckleberry Finn's father, detailing his relationships with his dad, brother, and son; affair with an African-American woman; problems with money and drinking; and death.
12) Huckleberry Finn
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2010.
Lexile measure
650L
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English
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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.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
700L
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English
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An illustrated adaptation of Mark Twain's classic novel - at an easy-to-read level with updated vocabulary for young readers! 'For a moment there, I thought you was goin' to hand me in, Huck,' said Jim. 'You're my friend,' I said. 'I want to help you.' Huckleberry Finn is desperate for another adventure - but his nasty father returning to steal him and his money away is not what he had in mind. Huck runs away and discovers that a slave, Jim, is also...
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2008.
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English
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"Tom Sawyer loves adventure. He has them at home, at school, and with his friends - Huck Finn, Joe Harper and Becky Thatcher. Tom has one adventure in a graveyard, and one in a cave. Who does he see in those places, and why is he afraid?"--Book cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 500L
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English
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"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,...
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