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Whistling past the graveyard / by Crandall, Susan.;
Determined to get to Nashville to find her mother in 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home, eventually accepting a ride from a Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Girls; Runaway children; Race relations; Friendship;
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Finn : [electronic resource] : A novel. by Clinch, Jon.;
In this masterful debut by a major new voice in fiction, Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literature's most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn's father. The result is a deeply original tour de force that springs from Twain's classic novel but takes on a fully realized life of its own. Finn sets a tragic figure loose in a landscape at once familiar and mythic. It begins and ends with a lifeless body--flayed and stripped of all identifying marks--drifting down the Mississippi. The circumstances of the murder, and the secret of the victim's identity, shape Finn's story as they will shape his life and his death. Along the way Clinch introduces a cast of unforgettable characters: Finn's terrifying father, known only as the Judge; his sickly, sycophantic brother, Will; blind Bliss, a secretive moonshiner; the strong and quick-witted Mary, a stolen slave who becomes Finn's mistress; and of course young Huck himself. In daring to re-create Huck for a new generation, Clinch gives us a living boy in all his human complexity–not an icon, not a myth, but a real child facing vast possibilities in a world alternately dangerous and bright.Finn is a novel about race; about paternity in its many guises; about the shame of a nation recapitulated by the shame of one absolutely unforgettable family. Above all, Finn reaches back into the darkest waters of America’s past to fashion something compelling, fearless, and new.-- provided by Amazon.com.Electronic reproduction.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Runaway children; Fugitive slaves ; Male friendship; Race relations ; Boys ; Fiction.; Literature.;
© 2007.,
On-line resources: http://kirtland.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=7AEEC771-8913-4FAE-AB3A-84ECFB578B46 -- http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=;
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The adventures of Tom Sawyer / by Twain, Mark,1835-1910.;
The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Humorous stories.; Historical fiction.; Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character); Runaway children; Boys;
© 2010., Vintage Classic,
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James : a novel / by Everett, Percival,author.authttps://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJgHdxf4bjr9PfwPyxpMfq; Based on (work):Twain, Mark,1835-1910.Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.;
"From Percival Everett--a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards--comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river's banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin...), Jim's agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light. Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a "cult literary icon" (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature"--
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Historical fiction.; Fugitive slaves; Race relations; Male friendship; Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character); Runaway children;
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The adventures of Tom Sawyer : [electronic resource] : Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn series, book 1. by Twain, Mark.;
The orphan Tom Sawyer, raised by his aunt, is never out of trouble for long. A mischievous, charming boy (not to mention genius at escaping from trouble), Tom's adventures involve many unwitting bystanders. From one moment to the next, the boy could change into a pirate, or ship's captain - when he's not trying to win Becky Thatcher for a sweetheart, of course. Tom is also a friend of Twain's other beloved boy-hero, Huckleberry Finn.Grade 7 - Grade 12Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1274 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 389 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1273 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 384 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character); Runaway children; Boys; Fiction.; Classic Literature.;
© 2012., Duke Classics,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=0784865 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / by Twain, Mark,1835-1910.;
"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of a turbulent, yet hopeful epoch in American history, defining the experience of a nation in voices often satirical, but always authentic"--Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-345).
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character); Runaway children; Male friendship; Fugitive slaves; Race relations; Boys;
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The adventures of Huckleberry Finn : [electronic resource] : Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn series, book 2. by Twain, Mark.;
Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer's best friend, escapes down the Mississippi on a raft with the runaway slave, Jim. One of the iconic American novels, it caused a stir when published because of the vernacular used by Twain to characterize Jim and the people of the Mississippi. Twain's criticism of racial segregation and the treatment of slaves was thrown into turbulent criticisms at the turn of the century however, when he himself was accused of racist stereotyping and frequent use of the word "nigger".Grade 5Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1607 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 435 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1605 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 428 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character); Runaway children; Male friendship; Fugitive slaves; Race relations; Boys; Fiction.; Classic Literature.;
© 2012., Duke Classics,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=0784862 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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This tender land : a novel / by Krueger, William Kent,author.;
1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own. Over the course of one unforgettable summer, these four orphans will journey into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. -- adapted from jacket
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Orphans; Runaway children; Voyages and travels; Off-reservation boarding schools; Indians of North America; Depressions;
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Pax / by Pennypacker, Sara,1951-; Klassen, Jon,illustrator.;
"After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back"--Ages 10-14.
Subjects: Foxes as pets; Human-animal relationships; Children of military personnel; Fathers and sons; Mothers; Runaway children; Women hermits; Women veterans; Foxes as pets; Human-animal relationships;
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Wonderstruck : a novel in words and pictures / by Selznick, Brian.;
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Graphic novels; Graphic novels; Families; Diorama; Deaf; People with disabilities; American Museum of Natural History; Museums; Runaways; American Museum of Natural History; Deafness; Deaf; Diorama; Families; Museums; Orphans; People with disabilities; Runaway children; Deafness; Orphans;
© 2011., Scholastic,
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