Catalog Search Results
3) How we fall
Author
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The classic story of a boy who makes his own rules and the small Missouri town where he and his friends experience the adventures of a lifetime. Filled with schoolyard pranks, buried treasures, spooky caves, secret gangs, and grave robbers, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is entertainment of the highest order. The clever schemes of its eponymous hero--from tricking his friends into completing his chores to sneaking into his own funeral--are the stuff...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In 1894 Laura Ingalls Wilder, her husband, and her seven-year-old daughter Rose leave the Ingalls family in Dakota and make the long and difficult journey to Missouri to start a new life. From the time of the first publication of the Little House books in the 1930's and 40's, millions of readers have grown up with Laura In galls and her sisters as Pa led the family from the Big Woods of Wisconsin across the plains and Indian country to South Dakota....
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1848 a fourteen-year-old Missourian, although not a habitual liar, tells two lies that start off an unusual chain of events. This Twain-like novel features 14-year-old Henry as the wry narrator who tells of his comic adventures in 1848 Missouri. When a lie to his older brother Charles about their cousin being seen living with an Indian tribe leads them on an eventful search, the journey paints a picture of frontier prejudices with seriocomic overtones....
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Huckleberry Finn, the best friend of Tom Sawyer, is a young boy in the 1840s, who runs away from home, and floats down the Mississippi River. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In the all-white Missouri town of "Calico Springs, Willie's life has been defined by two powerful forces: God and the river. The 'miracle boy' died for five minutes as a young child, and ever since, Willie is certain he survived for a reason, but that purpose didn't become clear until he found the Game. The Game is called Manifest Atlas, and the concept is simple: enter an intention and the Game provides a target--a blinking blue dot on the map. Willie's...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Formats
Description
La mayor parte de las aventuras escritas en este libro ocurrieron realmente; una o dos fueron experiencias mías, el resto, de niños que fueron compañeros míos. Huck Finn está tomado de la vida real; Tom Sawyer también, pero no de una sola persona - se trata de una combinación de características de tres muchachos que yo conocía, y por lo tanto pertenece al orden compuesto de la arquitectura. Las extrañas supersticiones que se relatan prevalecen...
Author
Series
Time dogs volume 2
Language
English
Description
Follow the dogs Baxter, Trevor, Newton, Maia and Titch as they are transported back in time to 1805 Missouri, now as puppies, and must help Seaman and his traveling companions--the explorers Lewis and Clark.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request