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The adventures of Huck Finn

2001
The unforgettable saga of a mischievous youngster and a runaway slave on a wild expedition to freedom. As the pair take the ride of their lives down the treacherous Mississippi River, they run into an entertaining assortment of offbeat characters and face one challenging adventure after another.

The adventures of Tom Sawyer

1998
An unabridged republication of the 1876 novel about the adventures of a young boy in nineteenth-century rural America.

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1983
Huck, escaping from his father, who had imprisoned him in a lonely cabin, meets Jim, a runaway slave, on Jackson's Island on the Mississippi River. Together they float down the Mississippi.

On the other side of the hill

1995
In the early 1900s, young Rose Wilder and her parents struggle with a series of natural disasters on their farm in Missouri.

In the land of the big red apple

1995
A year after moving to their farm in the Ozarks, Laura and Almanzo Wilder and their young daughter, Rose, have settled into their new home with a successful vegetable harvest and the beginnings of an apple orchard.

A dangerous promise

1994
After being taken in by Captain Taylor and his wife in Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as musicians and see the horrors of war firsthand in Missouri.

Little house on Rocky Ridge

1993
In 1894 Laura Ingalls Wilder, her husband, and her seven-year-old daughter Rose leave the Ingalls family in Dakota and make the long and difficult journey to Missouri to start a new life.

Missouri

1998
A brief overview of the geography, history, cities, and people of the Show-Me State.

The Boneshaker

2010
When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is wrong and, after investigating, learns that her love of automata and other machines make her the only one who can set things right.

Sharp objects

a novel
2006
Reporter Camille Preaker tries to unravel the truth of her own troubled past as she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two preteen girls.

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