A Civil War Drummer Boy
Excerpts from the diary of William Bircher, a fifteen-year-old Minnesotan who was a drummer during the Civil War.
973.7
year: 2000
copies: 25
call number/section: 973.7
lexile: 890
The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
Presents the original text of the Mark Twain story that relates the escapades of Tom Sawyer and his friends in a small, 19th-century town on the Mississippi River, and provides side notes, illustrations, and annotations that contain information on the history, geography, and social customs of the day.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 238
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 950
subjects: misouri fiction, mississippi river fiction, sawyer, tom (fictitious character), adventure and adventurers, sawyer, tom (fictional character), mississippi river, missouri, boys [X], sawyer, tom, clemens, samuel langhorne, adventure fiction, large type books, runaway children, mississippi river valley, fugitive slaves, southern states, adventure stories, humorous fiction, finn, huckleberry (fictitious character), fiction, historical fiction, adventure fiction, child witnesses, bildungsromans, humorous stories, bildungsromans, united states [X], sawyer, tom, humorous stories, adventure stories, sawyer, tom (fictitious character), adventure, fiction book, quest, mississippi, audiobooks, compact discs, humorous fiction, witnesses, electronic books, action and adventure fiction
Stephen Crane's The Red Badge Of Courage
A graphic novel adaptation of Stephen Crane's tale of a youth whose dreams of glory on the battlefield clash with the realities of war.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: boys [X], soldiers, chancellorsville, battle of, chancellorsville, va., 1863, united states [X]
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Designed to acquaint readers with famous stories, this book, in graphic novel format, retells Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," a story of a boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 263
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 980
subjects: mississippi river, missouri, finn, huckleberry (fictitious character), boys [X], clemens, samuel langhorne, finn, huckleberry (fictional character), voyages and travels, missouri fiction, missouri fiction, mississippi river fiction, humorous fiction, humorous stories, runaway children, male friendship, fugitive slaves, race relations, large type books, huckleberry finn (fictional character), friendship, slaves, cartoons and comics, mississippi river valley, slavery, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, united states [X], audiobooks, voyages and travel, large print books, finn, huckleberry, action and adventure fiction, humorous fiction, bildungsromans, adventure stories, humorous stories, bildungsromans, adventure fiction, finn, huckleberry (fictional character), adventure stories, historical fiction, picaresque literature, compact discs, tourism, comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels, electronic books, graphic novels, electronic books
Many Ways To Be A Soldier
Ten-year-old Rem Goldin wants nothing more than to fight the British alongside his father in the American Revolution, and when he spots a British warship in the distance, he finds a way to save his town and warn the soldiers before it is too late.
973.3
year: 2008
copies: 2
call number/section: 973.3
lexile: 430
subjects: goldin, rem, boys [X], new jersey, united states [X], great egg harbor bay (n.j.), great egg harbor bay region (n.j.)
1776
African-American Caleb Jacobson, a sixteen-year-old free man living on a Maryland farm in the 1700s, is torn between loyalty to his fellow colonials and his race when rumors of war begins arriving from Boston.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Turning Points
A graphic novel adaptation of the beginning of the American Revolutionary War as told by Nathaniel Smithfield, a ten-year-old Bostonian whose father is loyal to sovereign England, who must decide for himself where his allegiance lies.
741.5
year: 2008
copies: 8
call number/section: 741.5
lexile:
subjects: boys [X], family life, historical fiction, cartoons and comics, united states [X], massachusetts
The Hoopster
Andre Anderson, an African-American teenager enjoying a summer filled with pickup basketball, a new girlfriend, and an internship at a popular magazine, becomes the target of violent bigotry when he writes a powerful article on racism.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 34
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: teenage boys, teenagers, boys [X], african americans, basketball, united states [X], hate crimes, basketball stories
Diary Of William Bircher
"Presents excerpts from the diary of William Bircher, a 15-year-old Minnesotan who was a drummer during the Civil War"--Provided by publisher.
973.7
year: 2014
copies: 8
call number/section: 973.7
lexile: 1040
The Devil's Den
"Indian Territory, 1881. Brody Martin, at 15 has survived a gunpowder explosion, a bear attack, a panther attack, and more than one attempt on his life.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: boys [X], frontier and pioneer life, united states [X], historical fiction, action and adventure fiction