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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"To escape from his violent and drunken father, a 13-year-old boy from the wrong side of the tracks, Huckleberry Finn, fakes his own death and floats away on a raft down the Mississippi with Jim, a runaway slave.In a series of unforgettable adventures narrated by Huck, they encounter a cross-section of characters from slave-hunters, and con men to feuding aristocrats.This was the first major American novel to be written in the vernacular, a dark and...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Alice Rose, an irrepressible twelve-year-old, shares adventures with Mark Twain, an outlandish reporter on her father's newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada, during the 1860s.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Susy Clemens wants the world to know that her papa, Mark Twain, is more than just a humorist and sets out to write a comprehensive biography of the American icon.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Best friends Lee Jones and Joan Lee have a lot more in common besides their names. On the eve of their class trip, they each learn their parents are getting divorced. Ugh. The class trip is a dud, so Lee and Joan steal away to talk. What follows is an afternoon nap in a lighthouse, walking up to find the Golden Gate Bridge gone-gone!-and meeting a young man named Sam Clemens, who is on the run from a mysterious stranger.
Lee and Joan wonder: Where...
Author
Series
Phantom files ; 1
Publisher
Dream Robot Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Alex is a reluctant psychic who can see ghosts. He may have to reveal his ability to his best friend when he meets the spirit of Mark Twain." --
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A young boy runs away and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a Black slave who is also running away but life is not always so easy for the two friends. Includes activities at the end of the story.
Author
Series
Publisher
Action Lab Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"While Tesla performs a demonstration at Mark Twain's retirement party, an uninvited guest with an unmatched intellect threatens everything Tesla has worked for. Meanwhile, Susan and Houdini enjoy a quiet evening of séances and astral travel with Aleister Crowley. In Vienna, the Cult continues its attempts to recruit a starving artist with a unique destiny"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Walter Foster Jr
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The greatest dinosaur writers wrote a treasury of prehistoric literature that paved the way for such modern classics as Romeo & Juliet, Wuthering Heights, The raven, The adventures of Tom Sawyer, A tale of two cities, and Pride and prejudice. Read biographical information about William Shakespeare, Emily Bronte, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Jane Austen." --
