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1) Flush
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
Author
Language
English
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Description
On a beautiful June day in 1965, a dozen girls-classmates at a picturesque Blue Ridge women's college-launched their homemade raft (inspired by Huck Finn's) on a trip down the Mississippi. It's Girls A-Go-Go Down the Mississippi read the headline in the Paducah, Kentucky, paper.
Thirty-five years later, four of those "girls" reunite to cruise the river again. This time it's on the luxury steamboat, The Belle of Natchez, and there's no publicity....
Author
Series
Torie O'Shea mysteries volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In Rett MacPherson's charming cozy mysteries, genealogist Torie O'Shea always seems to be right in the middle of it all in the goings-on in New Kassel, Missouri. When a drought hits the tiny river town and the depth of the mighty Mississippi lowers, Torie is one of the first on the scene to see what the water has revealed: the decades-old wreckage of a riverboat. Soon, the rumors that surrounded its sinking have resurfaced as well and are swirling...
Author
Series
Adventures of young Joseph Williams volume 2
Language
English
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Description
When an angry mob drives Joseph Williams and his family from Jackson County, the twelve-year-old must face conflicts within his family, his own unsteady faith, and his growing desire for adventure as a riverboat pilot on the Missouri River.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
In 1806, the exploits of Jacky Faber continue as she heads west to avoid capture by the British and discovers adventure aboard a keelboat on the mighty Mississippi River.
7) Rimfire
Author
Series
Those Jensen boys volume 2
Language
English
Description
Smoke Jensen was a towering Western hero. Now his two freewheeling, long-lost nephews, Ace and Chance Jensen, are blazing a legendary trail of their own. Riverboat gambling is a blast, until hot-headed Chance finds out just what he won in his final hand against a Missouri River gambler named Haggarty. Chance's "prize" is a beautiful Chinese slave girl named Ling. The twins want to set Ling free and keep their cash, but at Fort Benton, Ling gives them...
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