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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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 500L
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,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
810L
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
Boxcar children volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the Cristina's trip up the Mississippi, Libby Norstad and her friends meet a talented violinist who seems to have secret. Libby is set on discovering what it is, but when they arrive in St. Paul, his violin is stolen. Libby, Caleb, and Jordan lead the search, but find nothing. Then the fugitive slave Jordan meets his biggest enemy, and takes on a new role in the Underground Railroad.
6) Tom Sawyer
Author
Series
Lexile measure
GN 400L
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a boy growing up in the nineteenth century in a Mississippi River town as he plays hookey on an island, witnesses a crime, hunts for pirates' treasure, and becomes lost in a cave.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1857, while working for the Underground Railroad on a Mississippi River steamboat, thirteen-year-old Libby hunts for the swindler who has robbed her father and tries to reunite the fugitive slave Jordan with his missing father.
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.
9) Swift rivers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
Description
In 1835, after being turned out by his mean-spirited uncle, Chris Dahlberg decides to harvest some of the timber on his grandfather's land in Minnesota and float the giant logs down the Mississippi River to market in St. Louis.
10) Race for freedom
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.
11) Midnight Rescue
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1857, having arrived in Minnesota Territory on her father's steamboat, twelve-year-old Libby continues to harbor the runaway slave boy Jordan while worrying about a fugitive who has escaped from the local prison.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a three-legged snapping turtle as she travels from the headwaters to the mouth of the Mississippi River illustrate the life cycle of the turtle and the geography, history, geology, and climate of the river.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Christina and Grant start in New Orleans, their friends start in Minnesota. Their plan is to meet at the St. Louis Gateway Arch, but on their trip, they get involved in a very strange mystery that takes them to many fascinating sights along the mighty Mississippi.
15) 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.
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
Two teenagers desperately looking for a job found work on a logging expedition on the White River. With their employer they toiled for months until at last a large raft of logs was spliced together to cover an acre or more. The raft was floated down the Mississippi River where they met adventures and adversities.
Author
Series
Works volume 13
Language
English
Description
Presents the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. Universally acclaimed as one of the greatest creations of American fiction, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of those few books that are read over and over again, with ever increasing enjoyment.
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