mississippi river

Christina and Grant are headed up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to meet Sam and Jake in St. Louis who are heading down river from Minnesota, but find themselves embroiled in a mystery that takes them over locks and dams and past Tom Sawyer's cave.

A brief history of the steamboats which plied the Mississippi River from the early 1800s until the beginning of the age of the railroad later in the century.

The four members of the Explorers Club go on a Mississippi steamboat trip and track down a missing Mark Twain manuscript.

Collection of historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary about the 1884 novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," including study questions, topics for research papers and class discussions, and lists of further reading.

Discusses "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," offering biographical information on the author, text analysis, character summaries, and excerpts from literary criticism.

Nearly twenty years after the holocaust called the Flash has destroyed modern civilization, Tomcat and a group of other orphans face danger as they steer an old steamboat over the toxic waters of the Mississippi River.

The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.

Huckleberry Finn, the son of the town drunk, and Jim, an escaped slave, make a break for freedom down the Mississippi River on a raft, sharing many adventures along the way.

An adaptation of the Mark Twain classic in which the world is altered by a zombie virus that turns people into "Zum," and Tom and his friends sharpen fence posts to fight the Zum and protect the town.

Presents Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," the story of a spirited boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century, and includes explanatory notes, an overview of themes, critical analysis, and other resources.