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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
One of the most popular books of all-time, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has been both venerated and vilified since it was first published in 1885. The story of a young abused boy on the run and his friendship with a runaway slave is about loyalty, compassion, and doing what is right.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"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...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 44
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Tom Sawyer, an adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, as well as being hunted by Injun Joe, the true murderer.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Finn sets a tragic figure loose in a landscape at once familiar and mythic. It begins and ends with a lifeless body-flayed and stripped of all identifying marks-drifting down the Mississippi. The circumstances of the murder, and the secret of the victims identity, shape Finns story as they will shape his life and his death. Along the way Clinch introduces a cast of unforgettable characters: Finns terrifying father, known only as the Judge; his sickly,...
10) Huckleberry Finn
Author
Series
Publisher
Skyview Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"This is a retelling of the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft in the mid-nineteenth century."--Publisher.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hank Morgan, cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, wakes to find himself in the England of King Arthur. The tough minded Yankee, an embodiment of scientific enlightenment, faces a world whose idyllic surface only masks the dark forces of fear, injustice, and ignorance. This is the springboard which launches one of literature's most extraordinary excursions into fantasy. With the agility of Mark Twain's unique virtuosity,...
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"All modern American literature comes from one book called Huckleberry Finn," declared Ernest Hemingway. "There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Yet even from the time of its first publication in 1885, Mark Twain's masterpiece has been one of the most celebrated and controversial books ever published in America. No other story so central to our American identity has been so loved and so reviled as Huck Finn's autobiography.
Michael...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Huckleberry Finn: Always in a bind, Huckleberry Finn (Ron Howard) has learned to think on his feet. When his drunken father kidnaps him, Huck fakes his own death and escapes down the wild Mississippi. While on the run, Huck teams up with his old friend, Jim, a slave headed to free territory. Together they encounter every kind of adventure imaginable -- from a hoax involving a pair of lying crooks, to hunters looking for the runaway Jim, and even...
19) America's female Buffalo soldier: a new look at the life of Cathy Williams in history and memory
Author
Publisher
PublishNation LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Tucker has masterfully inked a compelling tribute to a woman" named Cathy Williams. Prince George's Sentinel, Maryland The unforgettable true story of Cathy Williams, the first and only female Buffalo Soldier in history, is timeless and important on many levels. Cathy's personal odyssey has provided us with a host of valid life lessons about what it takes to succeed in life then and today - perseverance, ingenuity, willpower, and determination. Most...