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Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken, dangerous Pa and Jim is a runaway slave longing to be reunited with his family. Flung together by circumstance, they journey down the Mississippi together on a log raft, each in search of his own definition of freedom. Their daring adventures along the way provide both entertainment and a satirical look at the moral values of the Deep South of the 1800s.
22) Grandpa Green
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A child explores the ordinary life of his extraordinary great-grandfather, as expressed in his topiary garden.
23) Quiver
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 25 cm.
25) Disobedience
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
463 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
26) A fine line
Author
Series
Brady Coyne mysteries volume 19
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 24 cm.
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
407 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
The son of a fortune teller, who was struck by a meteorite when he was ten years old, befriends a grumpy old widower and proves his friendship by getting stopped at the border by customs with a large bag of marijuana and an urn full of ashes.
28) Gunpowder empire
Author
Series
Crosstime traffic volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 22 cm.
30) Secret father
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
637 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
32) Canada
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
432 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Then fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm drives his life into before and after, a threshold that can never be uncrossed.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
417 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
The disappearance of twelve-year-old Newell Ewing and the resulting mystery brings together a group of seemingly unrelated strangers in Las Vegas--including his parents, an illustrator, a stripper, a teenage anarchist, and a group of street runaways.
Author
Series
Desmond Pucket volume 1
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Description
Aspiring special effects wizard Desmond Pucket carries his pranks too far, putting his field trip to Mountain Full of Monsters at Crab Shell Pier in jeopardy.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
422 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
As the new term gets under way at the elite St. Oswald's School for Boys, a number of increasingly devastating incidents occurs, leaving the unraveling school in the hands of the only person who can save it, Roy Straitley.
37) Redwoods
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A young city boy, riding the subway, finds an abandoned book about redwoods. He finds himself in the very forest described in the book. After finishing the book, he leaves it for someone else to read.
39) Monster and boy
Author
Series
Monster and Boy volume 1
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
132 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
Follows the riotous misadventures of a boy and a monster, who forge a remarkable friendship when the surprised boy encounters the monster under his bed and is promptly swallowed up.
40) Old Yeller
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
1956
Physical Desc
158 p. : ill.
Description
In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, fourteen-year-old Travis faces taking over his family's farm and making a painful, important decision.
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