"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,...

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.

Ten-year-old Jeremy Sims is ashamed of the harsh racism of his father and other white adults. He wants to make friends with the black Logan family to make amends, only to see them thrown off the overloaded local bus. But as the rain pours down and the river swells, disaster looms!

Davy Crockett battles Snag, a fierce gator, from destroying steamers along the Mississipi River.

Relates the deeds of the frontiersman who became the King of the Keelboatmen on the Mississippi River

"The date is April 27, 1865. You are crammed onboard the steamboat Sultana with more than 2,000 passengers. Many of them are soldiers heading home after the Civil War. You're cruising on the Mississippi River when a massive explosion rips through the ship. Do you dive into the water to save yourself or stay onboard to help the survivors? Will you try to swim for shore or wait for help to arrive? Will you stay with your sick friend or try to find someone...

Discusses the geographic features, history, government, people, achievements, and attractions of the state whose name means "big river."

From sea to shining sea, the United States is a country full of tall tales! Take the story of Mike Fink and Annie Christmas, legendary keel boat captains who battle with strength and skill on the waters of the mighty Mississippi River. Meet Febold Feboldson, an ingenious farmer credited with bringing rain to the hot, dusty Great Plains, and Joe Magarac, the quintessential steel man from Pittsburgh, Pa., who can make railroad tracks with his bare hands....