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Lexile/Reading Level
980L

Genre/Category
History | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
Age of Exploration/Discovery | Colonial America
Date
1600s
Topic
Exploration | Mississippi River
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Book

Despite All Obstacles: La Salle and the Conquest of the Mississippi (Great Explorers)

Author: Goodman, Joan ElizabethPart of a Series: Great Explorers

To say that Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle was determined is like saying the sun is warm. La Salle made his way from Eastern Canada to the Great Lakes. Then he traveled by canoe down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. This vast territory was dense unexplored wilderness, controlled by the fierce and powerful Iroquois. To make the merely daunting nearly impossible, La Salle was on his own. His King, Louis X1V, would provide neither protection, men nor money.

Through one setback after another, La Salle kept on going. His men deserted him; he walked a thousand miles, in the middle of the brutal Canadian winter, back to Montreal and organized a new expedition. The Iroquois threatened; he brought together rival tribes, and speaking in their own language, united them into an alliance against the Iroquois. La Salle’s ship sunk with a fortune in furs meant to finance his expedition. Again, he walked back to Montreal and found new financial support.

Part adventure, part biography, Despite All Obstacles is the fascinating story of this obstinate and courageous man who had dreams as large as the continent and a will to match those dreams.

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Lexile/Reading Level
1090L Recommended for 7-9 Grades

Genre/Category
Biographies | Geography | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1800s
Topic
Biography | Memoirs | Mississippi River
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
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Life on the Mississippi

Author: Twain, Mark

Discover the magic of life on the Mississippi.

At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Mark Twain’s early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, Life on the Mississippi is the raw material from which Twain wrote his finest novel: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn .

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 4-6 Grades

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Realistic

Historical Time Period
Contemporary
Date
1950s
Topic
Boating | Mississippi River | Moving
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Girl(s)
Format
Book | Ebook

Houseboat Girl (American Regional)

Author: Lenski, LoisPart of a Series: American Regional

What would it be like to live on a houseboat on the Mississippi River with two parents, four kids, eight chickens, several turtles, a dog, and a cat? Patsy and her family are about to find out!
At first, Patsy is upset when her parents decide to move from their home in River City, Illinois, to a houseboat on the Mississippi River. She’ll miss her house and friends, and she’s sure the trip downriver will be boring. Gradually, she and her brother and sisters get used to their new life. Patsy grows to love the ever-changing river, where she even learns to swim. But she can’t help longing for a real house–on land. “Houseboat Girl” is based on the experiences of real families living on the Mississippi River in the summer of 1954. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lois Lenski including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Varies with version - Recommended for 4-6 Graders (advanced Readers)

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical | Realistic

Topic
Boys & Men | Friendship | Growing Up - Coming of Age | Mississippi River | Murder | Prejudice and Racism
Geographic Region
Missouri | United States - America
Main Character
Boy(s)
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Author: Twain, Mark

From the famous episodes of the whitewashed fence and the ordeal in the cave to the trial of Injun Joe, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is redolent of life in the Mississippi River towns in which Twain spent his own youth. A somber undercurrent flows through the high humor and unabashed nostalgia of the novel, however, for beneath the innocence of childhood lie the inequities of adult reality—base emotions and superstitions, murder and revenge, starvation and slavery. In his introduction, noted Twain scholar John Seelye considers Twain’s impact on American letters and discusses the balance between humorous escapades and serious concern that is found in much of Twain’s writing.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Varies with version - Recommended for 4-6 Grades (advanced readers)

Genre/Category
Adventure | Classics | Fiction | Historical

Topic
Boys & Men | Friendship | Growing Up - Coming of Age | Mississippi River | Prejudice and Racism | Runaway | Survival | Thieves | Traveling
Geographic Region
Missouri | United States - America
Main Character
Boy(s)
Format
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Author: Twain, Mark

Of all the contenders for the title of The Great American Novel, none has a better claim than The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Intended at first as a simple story of a boy’s adventures in the Mississippi Valley – a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – the book grew and matured under Twain’s hand into a work of immeasurable richness and complexity. More than a century after its publication, the critical debate over the symbolic significance of Huck’s and Jim’s voyage is still fresh, and it remains a major work that can be enjoyed at many levels: as an incomparable adventure story and as a classic of American humor.

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Lexile/Reading Level
1160L

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical

Topic
Family Relationships | Growing Up - Coming of Age | Hardships | Homelessness and Poverty | Mississippi River | Rivers
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Boy(s)
Award-Winning Book
Newbery | Newbery Honor
Format
Book

Swift Rivers

Author: Meigs, Cornelia

Barred from his family home- stead by his mean-spirited uncle, eighteen-year-old Chris weathers a Minnesota winter in a small cabin with his grandfather. Poverty and the tempting stories of a wandering Easterner convince Chris to harvest the trees on his grandfather’s land and float the logs down the spring floodwaters of the Mississippi to the lumber mills in Saint Louis. Filled with stories of raft hands and river pilots, this fast-paced novel has all the momentum of the great Mississippi.

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Lexile/Reading Level
910L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Science

Topic
Animals | Geography | Journey | Mississippi River | Nature | Turtles
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Animal
Award-Winning Book
Newbery | Newbery Honor
Format
Book

Minn of the Mississippi

Author: Holling, Holling C.

The history of the Mississippi River Valley is told in text and pictures through the adventures of Minn, a snapping turtle, as she travels downstream.

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2nd140-500L
3rd330-700L
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