| Swift Rivers Contributor(s): Meigs, Cornelia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802777031 ISBN-13: 9780802777034 Publisher: Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books OUR PRICE: $8.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: Barred from his family home- stead by his mean-spirited uncle, eighteen-year-old Chris weathers a Minnesota winter in a small cabin with his grandfather. Poverty and the tempting stories of a wandering Easterner convince Chris to harvest the trees on his grandfather' s land and float the logs down the spring floodwaters of the Mississippi to the lumber mills in Saint Louis. Filled with stories of raft hands and river pilots, this fast-paced novel has all the momentum of the great Mississippi. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General - Juvenile Fiction | Family - Multigenerational - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004061187 |
| Lexile Measure: 1160 |
| Series: Newbery Honor Roll |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 7.6" (0.80 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Rural |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 20306 Reading Level: 7.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 11.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Newbery Honor book Barred from his family home-stead by his mean-spirited uncle, eighteen-year-old Chris weathers a Minnesota winter in a small cabin with his grandfather. Poverty and the tempting stories of a wandering Easterner convince Chris to harvest the trees on his grandfather's land and float the logs down the spring floodwaters of the Mississippi to the lumber mills in Saint Louis. Filled with stories of raft hands and river pilots, this fast-paced novel has all the momentum of the great Mississippi. |