The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
Presents the original text of the Mark Twain story that relates the escapades of Tom Sawyer and his friends in a small, 19th-century town on the Mississippi River, and provides side notes, illustrations, and annotations that contain information on the history, geography, and social customs of the day.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 238
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 950
subjects: misouri fiction, mississippi river fiction, sawyer, tom (fictitious character), adventure and adventurers, sawyer, tom (fictional character), mississippi river, missouri, boys [X], sawyer, tom, clemens, samuel langhorne, adventure fiction, large type books, runaway children, mississippi river valley, fugitive slaves, southern states, adventure stories, humorous fiction, finn, huckleberry (fictitious character), fiction, historical fiction, adventure fiction [X], child witnesses, bildungsromans, humorous stories, bildungsromans, united states, sawyer, tom, humorous stories, adventure stories, sawyer, tom (fictitious character), adventure, fiction book, quest, mississippi, audiobooks [X], compact discs, humorous fiction, witnesses, electronic books, action and adventure fiction
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Designed to acquaint readers with famous stories, this book, in graphic novel format, retells Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," a story of a boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 263
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 980
subjects: mississippi river, missouri, finn, huckleberry (fictitious character), boys [X], clemens, samuel langhorne, finn, huckleberry (fictional character), voyages and travels, missouri fiction, missouri fiction, mississippi river fiction, humorous fiction, humorous stories, runaway children, male friendship, fugitive slaves, race relations, large type books, huckleberry finn (fictional character), friendship, slaves, cartoons and comics, mississippi river valley, slavery, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, united states, audiobooks [X], voyages and travel, large print books, finn, huckleberry, action and adventure fiction, humorous fiction, bildungsromans, adventure stories, humorous stories, bildungsromans, adventure fiction [X], finn, huckleberry (fictional character), adventure stories, historical fiction, picaresque literature, compact discs, tourism, comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels, electronic books, graphic novels, electronic books
Lord Of The Flies
"William Golding's unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 84
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, regression (psychology), islands, boys [X], golding, william, young men, english literature, audiobooks [X], boys fiction, books that were turned into a movie, audiobook, survival, compact discs, psychological fiction, closed captioning, dvds, closed caption video recordings, allegories, survivial (after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.), closed captioned video recordings, social problems, shipwreck survival, nuclear warfare, survival skills, castaways, good and evil, leadership, ego (psychology), electronic books, psychological fiction, action and adventure fiction, electronic books, interpersonal relations in children, fiction / classics, fiction / psychological, fiction / action & adventure, adventure fiction [X]
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Presents a facsimile printing of the first American edition of Mark Twain's classic novel, in which Huck, the son of the town drunk, and Jim, an escaped slave, make a break for freedom down the vast Mississippi River on a raft; and includes an introduction by novelist Toni Morrison and essays on the illustrations.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: finn, huckleberry (fictitious character), runaway children, male friendship, fugitive slaves, race relations, mississippi river, missouri, boys [X], finn, huckleberry (fictional character), mississippi river, slavery, voyages and travels, missouri, , friendship, adventure fiction, humorous fiction, bildungsromans, fiction / classics, fiction / literary, adventure fiction [X], humorous fiction, bildungsromans, adventure stories, humorous stories, audiobooks [X], compact discs, tourism, adventure and adventurers, adventure stories, humorous stories
The Lightning Thief
Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 717
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: greek mythology, camps, friendship, father-son relationship, poseidon (greek deity), jackson, percy (fictitious character), gods, voyages and travels, mythology, greek, fathers and sons, audiobooks [X], zeus (greek deity), hades (greek deity), children's audiobooks, boys [X], dyslexics, fantasy fiction, adventure fiction [X], jackson, percy (fictional character), gods and goddesses, jackson, percy, poseidon, hades, zeus, large type books, fantasy, fantasy fiction, large type books, zeus (greek deity), reading counts!