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1) James
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Language
English
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Description
"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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A simple daytrip turns to terror when Tom Sawyer, Huck Funn and Jim are kidnapped by the crazed inventor of an experimental airship, who flies off with his captives in a midnight storm, leaving the boys trapped miles in the air in mid-Atlantic.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In Robert Coover's Huck Out West, also "wrote by Huck," the boys escape "sivilization" and "light out for the Territory, riding for the famous but short-lived Pony Express, then working as scouts for both sides in the war. They are suddenly separated when Tom decides he'd rather own civilization than leave it, returning east with his new wife, Becky Thatcher, to learn the law from her father. Huck, abandoned and "dreadful lonely," hires himself out...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
This classic story of a homeless waif is world-renowned for being much more than a charming tale of boyhood adventures! As Huck and runaway slave Jim make their way down the mighty Mississippi, Huck is forced to ponder the nature of friendship and to find a sense of his own moral vision.
Author
Publisher
Sweet Cherry Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Huckleberry Finn is desperate for another adventure - but his nasty father returning to steal him and his money away is not what he had in mind. Huck runs away and discovers that a slave, Jim, is also trying to escape the town. The two make good friends - but will they find the freedom that they both desire?
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Presents the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. Universally acclaimed as one of the greatest creations of American fiction, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of those few books that is read over and over again, with ever increasing enjoyment.
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays that offer analysis and opinion about "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," looking at the form, themes, techniques, and conventions of the 1885 novel, and including biographical information about its author, Mark Twain.