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, 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, child witnesses [X], bildungsromans, humorous stories, bildungsromans, united states, sawyer, tom, humorous stories, adventure stories, sawyer, tom (fictitious character), adventure, fiction book, quest, mississippi, audiobooks, compact discs, humorous fiction, witnesses, electronic books, action and adventure fiction
Tom Sawyer
A simplified retelling of the classic story of the mischievous 19th-century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, as they run away from home, witness a murder, and find treasure in a cave.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 500
subjects: graphic novels, comic books, strips, etc, reading materials, mississippi river, missouri, short films, animated films, children's films, twain, mark, dvd-video discs, feature films, musical films, films for the hearing impaired, boys, sawyer, tom (fictitious character), adventure and adventurers, cartoons and comics, sawyer, tom (fictional character), child witnesses [X], runaway children, mississippi river valley, bildungsromans, humorous fiction, adventure fiction
The Client
Eleven-year-old Mark Sway witnesses the bizarre suicide of a New Orleans attorney and is left with a deadly secret concerning the recent murder of a Louisiana senator.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: mafia, organized crime, legal stories, new orleans (la.), women lawyers, attorney and client, child witnesses [X], suicide victims, memphis (tenn.)
Witnesses Of War
Draws on a wealth of untouched original material such as school assignments, juvenile diaries, and letters, to break the stereotypes of victimhood and trauma to give individual stories of the generation Hitler made.
940.53
year: 2007
copies: 7
call number/section: 940.53
lexile:
Billy Straight
Billy runs away to Los Angeles and witnesses a brutal stabbing. Now he's running for his life as the madman draws closer.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: street children, child witnesses [X], runaway children, los angeles (calif.), runaways, murder
Survivor In Death
Eve Dallas takes in nine-year-old Nixie Swisher, the only member of her family to escape a horrific murder spree, hoping the young girl can offer a clue into her family's killing and help Eve put to rest the demons that have been haunting her since her own childhood.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: dallas, eve (fictitious character), police, murder victims' families, twenty-first century, child witnesses [X], new york (n.y.)
A Crime In The Neighborhood
After a murder occurs in her quiet neighborhood, and her father runs off with another woman, ten-year-old Marsha begins investigating several people--including her mother's new boyfriend.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
No Crueler Tyrannies
Explores the hysteria surrounding child sexual-abuse cases in the 1980s and 1990s, recounting the events surrounding high-profile cases and how they were portrayed in the media.
345.73
year: 2003
copies: 1
call number/section: 345.73
lexile:
subjects: child sexual abuse, trials (child sexual abuse), false testimony, child witnesses [X], interviewing in child abuse
Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
In this graphic retelling, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn witness a murder, run away from home, and find a treasure in nineteenth-century Missouri.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: twain, mark, sawyer, tom (fictitious character), finn, huckleberry (fictitious character), child witnesses [X], runaway children, adventure stories, graphic novels, adventure and adventurers, missouri, mississippi river, graphic novels, adventure fiction
The Legacy
The murder was meant as a punishment - but what sin could justify the method? The only person who might have answers is the victim's seven-year-old daughter, who was found hiding in the room where her mother died.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: women psychologists, police, murder, mothers, child witnesses [X], child welfare, serial murder investigation, detective and mystery fiction