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Swift Rivers
Overview
Newbery Honor book
Barred from his family home-stead by his mean-spirited uncle, eighteen-year-old Chris weathers a Minnesota winter in a small cabin with his grandfather. Poverty and the tempting stories of a wandering Easterner convince Chris to harvest the trees on his grandfather's land and float the logs down the spring floodwaters of the Mississippi to the lumber mills in Saint Louis. Filled with stories of raft hands and river pilots, this fast-paced novel has all the momentum of the great Mississippi.Customers Also Bought
Details
- ISBN-13: 9780802777034
- ISBN-10: 0802777031
- Publisher: Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
- Publish Date: October 2004
- Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.8 pounds
- Page Count: 288
- Reading Level: Ages 10-UP
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