mississippi river

Marie-Grace, on a journey up the Mississippi River in a large steamboat with her father, meets Wilhelmina Newman, a girl her age who is traveling alone and carrying clues to hidden Gold Rush treasure, and, together, they work to unravel them.

Describes the Mississippi River, including its course, plants, animals, uses, history, and future.

A short biography for children on the life and journeys of French explorer Sieur de La Salle, and includes information about his expeditions to the Mississippi River, Louisiana, and his last expedition near Matagorda Bay, Texas.

A poem about the history of the Mississippi River, from its glacial beginnings to the present time of ships and riverboats.

A biography of the two seventeenth-century French explorers who were the first to chart the course of the Mississippi River.

A history of Robert Cavelier La Salle's exploration of the Mississippi River.

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

Huck, escaping from his cruel father, meets Jim, a runaway slave. Together they float down the Mississippi River.

A mischievous early-nineteenth-century Missouri boy named Tom Sawyer embarks on a summer of adventures with his friends Huck and Becky after witnessing a shocking crime in the village graveyard.

On the banks of the frozen Mississippi River, in a post-apocalyptic America, Freya and Finn head south in search of a place called Norlins, but first they must dodge the slavers and avoid starving to death.