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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge,...
2) Blood magic
Author
Series
Blood journals volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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In Yaleylah, Missouri, teens Silla and Nick, drawn together by loss and a shared family history of blood magic practitioners, are plunged into a world of dark magic as they try to unravel the mystery of Silla's parents' apparent murder suicide.
5) How we fall
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Merit Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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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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Series
American chillers volume 10
Publisher
AudioCraft Pub
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
10) Almost perfect
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
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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.
11) Keeping secrets
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Orphan Train adventures volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1987-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1863, eleven-year-old Peg Kelly is drawn into the dangerous activities of a mysterious young woman who had come to her home in Missouri after fleeing the raid of William Quantrill and his raiders on Lawrence, Kansas.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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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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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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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.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a nineteenth-century Mississippi River town as he plays hookey on an island, witnesses a crime, hunts for pirate treasure, and becomes lost in a cave.
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