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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic...
2) Tom Sawyer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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A captivating retelling of Mark Twain's classic adventure story. True to the original in plot, character, themes and style, this is an excellent way for a young reader to meet Tom Sawyer for the first time. Tom Sawyer is a respectable boy in a little Mississippi River town. Huck Finn is a freedom-loving, neglected outcast. What better playmate could Tom want?
One night, innocent games of pirates and Robin Hood turn serious when the boys witness a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century, small-town America, this novel has provided unique social commentary that continues to be discussed in classrooms today. Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, is constantly getting in and out of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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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 meeting a promise to have adventures that she made her brother, Jon, before he died.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Martha Tom knows better than to cross the Bok Chitto River to pick blackberries. The Bok Chitto is the only border between her town in the Choctaw Nation and the slave-owning plantation in Mississippi territory. The slave owners could catch her, too. What was she thinking? But crossing the river brings a surprise friendship with Lil Mo, a boy who is enslaved on the other side. When Lil Mo discovers that his mother is about to be sold and the rest...
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Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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"Marie-Grace can't wait to begin her journey up the Mississippi River with her father. The steamboat they're traveling on is the biggest and fanciest boat Marie-Grace has ever seen. It's crowded with all sorts of interesting passengers, including Wilhelmina Newman, a girl her age. Wilhelmina is traveling alone, and she's carrying a secret in one of her trunks--clues to hidden Gold Rush treasure."--Provided by publisher.
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Maximilian P. Mouse time traveler volume 4
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Low on fuel, Maximilian's time machine lands him on a Mississippi riverboat where he meets a friendly southern bullfrog, collects an autograph from the author Samuel Clemens to add to his souvenirs, and gets enough fuel to continue his journey through history.
12) Tom Sawyer
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Pub. Date
2010
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A simplified, abridged version of the adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century, accompanied by a short biography of Mark Twain, information about the abridgement, critical thinking questions, and other resources.