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-- Actual and truthful adventures of Becky Thatcher2014., Pre-adolescent, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1860, eleven-year-old Becky Thatcher, new to St. Petersburg, Missouri, joins the boys at school in a bet to steal from the Widow Douglas in hopes of meeting a promise to have adventures that she made her brother, Jon, before he died.
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-- Actual and truthful adventures of Becky Thatcher2014., Pre-adolescent, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1860, eleven-year-old Becky Thatcher, new to St. Petersburg, Missouri, joins the boys at school in a bet to steal from the Widow Douglas in hopes of meeting a promise to have adventures that she made her brother, Jon, before he died.
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c2006., Pre-adolescent, Sterling Pub. Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Classic startsSummary Note: An abridged version of the adventures of a nineteenth-century boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.
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c2006., Pre-adolescent, Sterling Pub. Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Classic startsSummary Note: An abridged version of the adventures of a nineteenth-century boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.
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-- Adventures of Huckleberry Finnc1997., Juvenile, McDougal Littell Call No: Class Set FIC TWA Availability:146 of 146 At Location(s) Series Title: Literature connections sourcebook.
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-- Tom Sawyerc2005., Pre-adolescent, Sterling Call No: F Twa Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Classic startsSummary Note: Presents an adaptation of the classic novel which follows the adventures and pranks of a mischievous, good-natured, boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century. Includes review questions.
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-- Tom Sawyerc2005., Pre-adolescent, Sterling Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Classic startsSummary Note: Presents an adaptation of the classic novel which follows the adventures and pranks of a mischievous, good-natured, boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century. Includes review questions.
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-- Tom Sawyerc2005., Pre-adolescent, Sterling Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Classic startsSummary Note: Presents an adaptation of the classic novel which follows the adventures and pranks of a mischievous, good-natured, boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century. Includes review questions.
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[2007]., Juvenile, F. Watts Call No: REALISTIC F TWA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Scholastic classicsSummary Note: The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.
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[2020]., Adolescent, Viking Call No: TEEN FIC TAY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "From the 1940s to the 1960s, Cassie Logan journeys around the country, ultimately returning home to Mississippi where she witnesses the Great Migration north and the rise of the Civil Rights Movement"--Provided by publisher.
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2020., Adolescent, Viking Call No: HISTORICAL F TAY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Cassie Logan, first met in Song of the Trees and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated by the racist society of America, and the often violent confrontations that brought about change. Rich, compelling storytelling is Ms. Taylor's hallmark, and she fulfills expectations as she brings to a close the stirring family story that has absorbed her for over forty years. It is a story she was born to tell."--Goodreads.com.
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2020., Juvenile, Viking Call No: Historical Fic Taylor Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Cassie Logan, now a young woman, has gone from the Logan family home in Toledo, then to California and Colorado, to law school in Boston, and finally in the 1960s back to Mississippi where it all started. There she joins the voter registration drive and is witness to the historic events of her era--the Great Migration to the north, postwar Americas racism, the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, and the violent confrontations that it sometimes takes to bring about real change.
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[2020]., Adolescent, Viking Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "From the 1940s to the 1960s, Cassie Logan journeys around the country, ultimately returning home to Mississippi where she witnesses the Great Migration north and the rise of the Civil Rights Movement"--Provided by publisher.
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c2006., Pre-adolescent, Cinco Puntos Press Call No: 398.2 TIN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.
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2006., Cinco Puntos Press Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.
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c2006., Pre-adolescent, Cinco Puntos Press Call No: Picture Book TIN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.
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[2014], Lucky Sky Press Call No: Historical fiction FIC FOLLETT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Three individuals experience prejudice differently against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, from 1954 to 1964, and each develops their own concept of freedom. Twelve-year-old Joan Barnes considers freedom her birthright as the child of upper middle class Yankee Catholics in Mississippi. C.J. Evans was born to a life of cleaning whitefolks' houses and freedom is what she holds in her heart and can't be taken from her. And for Zach Bernstein, a Jewish University of Chicago law student, freedom is an ever-expanding circle that can only get bigger. As the lives of these three collide when Zach comes to Mississippi in the summer of 1964 to teach at the Meridian Freedom School, they will each come to question their concepts of freedom and what price they are willing to pay for it.
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2012., Juvenile, Scholastic Press Call No: FIC SCA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Gloriana June Hemphill's birthday happens to be on the Fourth of July, so every year it is filled with celebration of fireworks and iced tea in Hanging Moss, Mississippi. In the summer of 1964 she is turning twelve, but she wishes she could go back a year all the same and not have to deal with a new girl in town--who wears black socks--or her questions about why the town wants to close down the segregated public pool. As she turns twelve, Glory determines to find out the truth about everything she can.
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2004., Houghton Mifflin Call No: Historical fiction FIC MCMULLAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Frank Russell, known as Shanks, wishes he could have gone with his father and brother to fight for Mississippi and the Confederacy, but his experiences with the war and his changing relationship with the family slave, Buck, change his thinking.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: Historical fiction FIC PINKNEY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Loretta, Roly, and Aggie B. Little relate their Mississippi family's struggles and triumphs from 1927 to 1968 while struggling as sharecroppers, living under Jim Crow, and fighting for Civil Rights.
