Catalog Search Results
Author
Description
Combine the wild waters of the Mississippi River and wordsmith Mark Twain, and what have you got? Some of the most famous and familiar literary works in American history, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Gilded Age, and Life on the Mississippi. Twain spent the first half of his life on and around the river, from his boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri, to his years as a steamboat pilot, during which he...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 21
Formats
Description
"Hank Morgan, cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, wakes to find himself in the England of King Arthur. The tough minded Yankee, an embodiment of scientific enlightenment, faces a world whose idyllic surface only masks the dark forces of fear, injustice, and ignorance. This is the springboard which launches one of literature's most extraordinary excursions into fantasy. With the agility of Mark Twain's unique virtuosity,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
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 meeting a promise to have adventures that she made her brother, Jon, before he died.
71) The tilted world
Author
Formats
Description
In 1927, as the Mississippi River threatens to burst its banks and engulf all in its path, two federal revenue agents investigate the disappearance of two fellow agents on the trail of a local bootlegger.
72) The Great Plains
Author
Pub. Date
1981, c1959
Description
Reprint of a 1931 text that describes the interaction between the central plains of America and the people who lived there.
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of the seventeenth-century French explorer who was the first European to travel the entire length of the Mississippi River, claiming for France, not only the river, but also all the land whose waters fed into it.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"The most famous river in America runs like a spine between the eastern and western parts of the country, flowing through ten states before it empties into the Gulf of Mexico. The mighty Miss also flows through the history of America, giving rise to great stories about the people who lived on it and used it as a watery highway, from Native Americans and European explorers to skillful riverboat captains and colorful gamblers traveling on luxurious...