missouri

The third edition of this popular series is updated with a variety of features that will help students learn about the state of Missouri. This comprehensive book outlines the geography, history, people, government, and economy of the state. Lists of key people, events, cities, plants and animals, and political figures, plus fact boxes and quotes, provide easily accessible information that is supplemented by activities such as crafts, recipes, and a map quiz. Historic photos, artwork, and other images enhance the text.

Mark Twain's classic adventures of the mischievous Tom Sawyer and his friends growing up in a small Mississippi River town in Missouri.

Whe their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.

"This book uses maps, full color photographs, and easy-to-read text to introduce the state of Missouri"--Provided by publisher.

Young Huckleberry Finn, in flight from his murderous father, and Jim, an escaped slave, pilot their raft down the Mississippi River in search of freedom.

The adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi on a raft.

A musical adaptation of Mark Twain's classic story about orphan Tom Sawyer and his adventures in Hannibal, Missouri, after witnessing a crime.

"As a New York-to-Missouri transplant in 1943, ten-year-old Susan Marcus discovers a world of prejudice right in her own backyard and makes a small but courageous stand toward equality"--Provided by publisher.

In the aftermath of a tornado that has devastated her hometown of Elizabeth, Missouri, sixteen-year-old Jersey Cameron struggles to overcome her grief as she is sent to live with her only surviving relatives.

In this loose retelling of "Wuthering Heights" set in Missouri during the Civil War, when free-spirited seventeen-year-old Catrina discovers a mysterious young man with amnesia on her family's sorghum farm, they fall passionately in love, scandalizing intolerant family members and neighbors.