Twain, Mark

Summary: Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypal American maverick. Fleeing the respectable society that wants to "sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC TWA

Jahren, Hope

Summary: "In his classic work Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain briefly introduces "Mary Jane, the red-headed one." In no time Mary Jane becomes the girl Huck thinks about "a many and a many million times." Now author Hope Jahren has created for Mary Jane a life as vivid and compelling as Huck's. These pages will show you the real Mary Jane. A girl on her own dangerous, unpredictable journey...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JAH

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC JAH

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC JAH

Savage, Les.

Summary: Just a few years before the War of 1812, Natchez-Under-the-Hill rang with the cries of hawkers and harlots, the curses of brawling river boatmen and the clank of slave chains. It was a lusty and turbulent time on the mighty Mississippi. Owen Naylor and Charlotte Dumaine are united in their effort to put steam power on the river, an idea that threatens the traditional reign of the keelboats....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAV