missouri

In small-town Missouri in tumultuous 1963, Tree Taylor, thirteen, wants to write an important story to secure a spot on the high school newspaper staff, but when a neighbor is shot, she investigates and learns that some secrets should be kept.

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.

In 1852, Emma, her pregnant mother, and her pony board the steamboat Sally May to meet her father in St. Joseph, Missouri, but when the ship explodes, Emma and all onboard must fight for their survival in the icy waters of the Missouri River.

The adventures of a boy growing up in the nineteenth century in a Mississippi River town as he plays hookey on an island, witnesses a crime, hunts for the pirates' treasure, and becomes lost in a cave.

After her father, brother, and sister are killed in a plane crash, twelve-year-old Daralynn's life in tiny Digginsville, Missouri, proceeds as her mother turns angry and embittered, her grandmother becomes senile, and her flamboyant aunt continues to run the Summer Sunset Retirement Home for Distinguished Gentlemen, while being courted by the owner of the town's new crematorium.

"At seventeen, Sherman Andrews has been accepted in the Missouri Scholars' Academy. Sherman has had a ten-year plan since he was eight, and he is determined to become an award-winning investigative journalist. He is going places, unlike his low-brow plumber father or his absent mother. While researching his first project, a chance discovery of a mysterious photograph of four men, dated 1935, leads to Sherman uncovering records of deaths, disappearances, and cover-ups on an almost unbelievable scale. The organization responsible is still around, and they're prepared to take drastic measures to keep him quiet"--Back cover.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the state of Missouri, including its history, economy, geography, people, and more.

Alma DeGreer Dunahew, a mother of three and maid for a prominent family in West Table, Missouri, struggles with the death of her scandalous sister in an explosion at a local dance hall in 1929.

Rev. and updated bibliography. Contents: The adventures of Tom Sawyer--The adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Huck, escaping from his cruel father, meets Jim, a runaway slave, and together they embark on a grand adventure down the Mississippi River on a raft. Includes original illustrations, historical notes, a glossary, maps, and other resources.