Mark Twain
Author
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
238 pages : illustrated ;
Language
English
Description
Huckleberry Finn escapes from his evil, drunken father who is trying to steal his treasure. Huck befriends Jim,a runaway slave and together they float towards freedom on a raft down the Mississippi river. They encounter thieves and murderers, con men and hucksters as they journey together.
Author
Series
Publisher
Balckstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
11 CDs (14 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves using other forms...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a spirited boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century, as he tries a new method for curing warts, witnesses a murder, runs away to an island and pretends to be a pirate, watches his own funeral, and falls for the new girl in the neighborhood.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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 fulfilling a promise to have adventures that she made her brother Jon before he died.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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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...