river boats

Nancy gets to go with Bess, George, and George's caterer mother to a mystery dinner on a riverboat and finds herself investigating a real theft.

Discusses the development and uses of different means of transportation along the great network of rivers in early America.

Four women, part of a group of classmates from Blue Ridge women's college who traveled down the Mississippi on a homemade raft in 1965, reunite thirty-five years later to share their memories, examine how their lives have turned out, and sprinkle the ashes of a fifth friend in the waters off New Orleans.

Text and photographs describe the progression of cargo barges down the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans.

In 1850s Pittsburgh, thirteen-year-old Owen leaves his younger brother and sneaks aboard a circus housed in a riverboat, where he befriends a freed slave, learns to work with elephants, and finally comes to terms with the choices he has made in his difficult life.

A World War II tale based on a true historical event follows the experiences of sixteen-year-old Scott and his friend, Adam, who while performing summer job duties on a ship on the St. Lawrence River discover that a German agent is on board.

Jon and Tania--who can see and communicate with ghosts--journey down the Mississippi River on an antique riverboat in search of ghosts, but the spirit of a pyromaniac, riverboat captain proves dangerous to the siblings and the crew.

The students in Miss Mackle's third-grade class enjoy a boat trip on the Connecticut River after a class discussion of ancestors reveals that Sidney and Ida both have connections to the sea.

In the mid-1800s. with both her father and her uncle in jail on an assault charge, Maggie, her brother, and her ailing mother rush their barge along the Erie Canal to deliver their heavy cargo or lose everything.

With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.