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Author
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century. Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It's something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom's sly trickery with the whitewashed fence, when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him, to his and Becky Thatcher's calamities in Bat Cave, the...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 990L
Language
English
Description
"Huckleberry Finn had a tough life with his drunken father, until an adventure with Tom Sawyer changed everything. But when Huck's dad returns and kidnaps him, he must escape down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave named Jim. They encounter trouble at every turn, from floods and gunfights to armed bandits and the long arm of the law. Through it all the friends stick together...but can Huck and Tom free Jim from slavery once and for all?" --...
3) Death rattle
Author
Series
Guns of Samuel Pritchard volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1863, a teenaged boy fled his home in Atherton, Missouri, to escape the power-hungry men who murdered his father and stole his family's land. He joined the Confederacy under an assumed name and led guerilla raids in the Civil War. Then came a decade as a Texas Ranger. Now, after ten blood-soaked years, he is finally coming home and finally using his real name and finally getting revenge against the cold-hearted devils who destroyed his family and...
Author
Series
Guns of Samuel Pritchard volume 4
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"1875. The escalating rivalry between the two major railroad companies takes a dangerous--and deadly--turn when a train is deliberately derailed. Many are killed. More are injured. And Marshal Samuel Pritchard's longtime friend is crippled for life. The mastermind behind the train wreck claims to be the infamous Civil War criminal Jem Rupe, aka 'The Trainwrecker of Platte Bridge.' There's just one problem: Rupe has been dead for ten years.... With...
Author
Series
Guns of Samuel Pritchard volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
423 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"DEMENTED. DERANGED. DERAILED. 1875. The escalating rivalry between the two major railroad companies takes a dangerous - and deadly - turn when a train is deliberately derailed. Many are killed. More are injured. And Marshal Samuel Pritchard's longtime friend is crippled for life. The mastermind behind the train wreck claims to be the infamous Civil War criminal Jem Rupe, aka "The Trainwrecker of Platte Bridge." There's just one problem: Rupe has...
8) Cottonmouth
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
1874. After losing his innocence in the Civil War and risking his life as a Texas Ranger, Samuel Pritchard has finally settled into a peaceful life in his hometown of Atherton, Missouri. As marshal, he hopes to put his bloody past behind him. To see his sister marry his lifelong friend. To find a wife and raise a family. For the first time in his life, Pritchard isn't gunning for anyone--and no one is gunning for him. Or so he thinks. Strangers have...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
950L
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a diphtheria outbreak forces twelve-year-old Cissy to leave her Oklahoma hometown in the 1890s, she and her two classmates embark on a wild adventure down the Missouri River with a team of traveling actors who are living on a dilapidated paddle steamer.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
530L
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1811, nine-year-old Marie is sad to learn that her family will be moving from New Madrid to St. Louis, Missouri, but when terrible earthquakes destroy her town, everything changes. Includes facts about those earthquakes and their effects.
11) Emma's river
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
142 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1852, Emma, her pregnant mother and her pony board the steamboat Sally May to meet her father in St. Joseph, Missouri, but when the ship suddenly explodes in a fiery blaze, Emma and all onboard must fight for their survival in the icy waters of the Missouri River.
Author
Series
Adventures in time 1849 volume 2
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After being hailed as heroes again for claiming to have caught a Bigfoot-type monster, Tom, Huck, Becky, Jim, and twenty-first-century time traveler Zane find there may be a real monster at large.
Bored after their previous adventure, Tom Sawyer concocts a scheme to bamboozle the villagers of St. Petersburg into believing that Bigfoot-type monsters are migrating up the Mississippi River. He and his friends, Huck, Becky, Jim, and Zane Rasmussen, a...