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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of...
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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With his mother working long hours and in pain from a romantic break-up, eighteen-year-old Logan feels alone and unloved until a zany new student arrives at his small-town Missouri high school, keeping a big secret.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is wrong and, after investigating, learns that her love of automata and other machines make her the only one who can set things right.
9) Grounded
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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After her father, brother, and sister are killed in a plane crash, twelve-year-old Daralynn's life in tiny Digginsville, Missouri, proceeds as her mother turns angry and embittered, her grandmother becomes senile, and her flamboyant aunt continues to run the Summer Sunset Retirement Home for Distinguished Gentlemen, while being courted by the owner of the town's new crematorium.
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
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In 1860, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm near St. Joseph, Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his newly-widowed foster father to send for and marry his mother.
12) Huckleberry Finn
Author
Publisher
Yoyo Libros
Pub. Date
℗©2005.
Language
Español
Description
From a boy, a raft, and a river flows a story of a friendship that defines the adventurous spirit of America.
13) How we fall
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Publisher
Merit Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
As first cousins, seventeen-year-olds Jackie and Marcus know their love is taboo, but living in the same house, working at the family's vegetable stand, and especially seeking Jackie's missing best friend, Ellie, keep drawing them together.
14) A family apart
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
When their widowed mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.
15) Torn away
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a tornado that has devastated her hometown of Elizabeth, Missouri, sixteen-year-old Jersey Cameron struggles to overcome her grief as she is sent to live with her only surviving relatives.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
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.
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Time dogs volume 2
Publisher
Godwin Books/Holt & Company, Henry
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When a pack of senior dogs find themselves transported back in time and turned into puppies! they must make their way back home, helping real-life historical dogs along the way. In this second adventure, Baxter, Trevor, Newton, Titch, and Maia -- the time dogs! -- find themselves transported through time and space to 1805 on the Missouri River. There, deep in the wilderness, the puppies must help Seaman, the dog of legendary explorers Lewis and Clark....
19) Noggin
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
After dying at age sixteen, Travis Coates' head was removed and frozen for five years before being attached to another body, and now the old Travis and the new must find a way to coexist while figuring out changes in his relationships.
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