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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
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A young boy living in mid-nineteenth century Missouri relates the many adventures that he and his friend Jim, an escaped slave, experience as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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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.
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English
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Four women, part of a group of classmates from Blue Ridge women's college who traveled down the Mississippi on a homemade raft in 1965, reunite thirty-five years later to share their memories, examine how their lives have turned out, and sprinkle the ashes of a fifth friend in the waters off New Orleans.
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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...
6) Train man
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Hush Hanson, Assistant Director of the FBI, teams up with senior special agent Carolyn Lang in an effort to discover who is blowing up the railroad bridges that cross the Mississippi River between St. Louis and New Orleans.
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