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1) Roughing it
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
In Roughing It our nation's favorite storyteller shares memories of his "vagabondizing" days on the untamed frontier - of curious people, exotic places, hardship, danger - and a whopping dose of good fun.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
"Twain's firsthand portrait of the steamboat age and the science of riverboat piloting recalls the history of the Mississippi River, from its discovery by Europeans to the writer's own time." *** "Mark Twain's famous account of life on the Mississippi in the old steamboat days and his own experiences as a pilot. Its historical sketches, its frequent passages of vivid description, and its humorous episodes combine to make [this] a masterpiece of the...
Author
Language
English
Description
I have dound out, Mark Twain once wrote, "that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them." It was a lesson he had actually learned when, as a young journalist, he set sail for Europe and the Holy Land with "the first organized pleasure party ever assembled for a transatlantic voyage."
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this first volume, Scharnhorst covers Clemen's life from his childhood Missouri to his work in printshops, from his career as a Mississippi River pilot to his writing stint in Nevada, and from his trip to Europe and the Holy Land o his move east to Buffalo, New York."--Inside dust jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
A humorist, narrator, and social observer, Mark Twain is unsurpassed in American literature. Best known as the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, not unlike his protagonist, Huck, has a restless spirit. He found adventure prospecting for silver in Nevada, navigating steamboats down the Mississippi, and making people laugh around the world. But Twain also had a serious streak and decried racism and injustice. His fascinating...