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Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books, 2004-01-10

Swift Rivers

Swift Rivers

Newbery Honor Book and Newbery Honor Roll

Cornelia Meigs, Author

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9780802777034

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Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown, 1932.
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Keywords and Themes: Action & Adventure • Family • General • Historical • JUV001000 • JUV001010 • JUV013030 • JUV016000 • Juvenile Fiction • Multigenerational • Survival Stories

Age Range • 10-0

Pages • 288

Subjects • History • 19th century • Logging • Frontier and pioneer life • Mississippi River

Categories • Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure • Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational • Juvenile Fiction | Historical | General • Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure | Survival Stories

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.

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