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67) James: a novel
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"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...
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Random House
Pub. Date
1995.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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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.
71) Twentieth century interpretations of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: a collection of critical essays
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Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
[1968]
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English
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Raytail Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An American classic becomes a modern adventure. In this retelling of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tim DeRoche dares to imagine that Huck Finn is alive today. Chased by his vengeful and psychotic father, Pap, Huck escapes down the concrete gash that is the Los Angeles River with his friend Miguel, an illegal immigrant who has been falsely accused of murder. Riding the dangerous waters of a rainstorm, the two fugitives meet a strange...
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CCS Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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A graphic novel adaptation of Mark's Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" in which a mischievous early nineteenth-century Missouri boy named Tom Sawyer embarks on a summer of adventures with his friends Huck and Becky after witnessing a shocking crime in the village graveyard.
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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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.