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IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century, small-town America, this novel has provided unique social commentary that continues to be discussed in classrooms today. Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, is constantly getting in and out of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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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...
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"Describes the exploration of North America in the times of explorers Christopher Columbus, Francisco V©Łzquez de Coronado, and Sieur de La Salle. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from Columbus' voyage in 1492, Coronado's 1540 expedition, and Sieur de La Salle's expedition down the Mississippi River in 1682"--Provided by publisher.
7) La Salle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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This book describes the life of Robert Cavalier, sieur de La Salle, who led an expedition to the mouth of the Mississippi River and who claimed the land he explored for France.
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[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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This book, with online access to enhanced content, describes the Mississippi River as part of the water cycle, the plant and animal life along or in the Mississippi River, and the manmade structures used to control the Mississippi's flow.
10) Mississippi
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2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"Developed by literacy experts for students in grades three through seven, this book introduces young readers to the geography and culture of Mississippi"--Provided by publisher.
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c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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A biography of the seventeenth-century French explorer who was the first European to travel the entire length of the Mississippi River, claiming for France, not only the river, but also all the land whose waters fed into it.
20) Minnesota
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2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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"Developed by literacy experts for students in grades three through seven, this book introduces young readers to the geography and culture of Minnesota"--