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Huckleberry Finn, the best friend of Tom Sawyer, is a young boy in the 1840s, who runs away from home, and floats down the Mississippi River. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi...
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American adventure (Barbour) volume 13
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Betsy Miller and her cousin are moving with their families to the river city of Cincinnati.
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American adventure (Barbour) volume 11
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After witnessing the Boston Tea Party, Stephen Lankford and his cousin find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict between Patriots and Loyalists.
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American adventure (Barbour) volume 12
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Paul Lankford's father returns after six years of fighting in the Revolutionary War.
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American adventure (Barbour) volume 10
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Stephen Lankford worries that his older sister Lydia might get into serious trouble by taunting and throwing snowballs at the British soldiers stationed in Boston.
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American adventure (Barbour) volume 9
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William and Kathleen Lankford must decide whether or not to help a wounded British soldier.
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American adventure (Barbour) volume 17
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Henry Lankford survives the biggest Cincinnati flood, then must face the threat of cholera.
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American adventure (Barbour) volume 6
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The war with the French is over, but everything in Beth Smith's life has changed. Can she look beyond her own problems and find a way to help her friends?
12) Dream seekers
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American adventure (Barbour) volume 3
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Phillip Smythe wonders if his sister Leah will ever be well, if the Indian he meets in the woods near Massachusetts Bay Colony is a friend or enemy, and if his dream of becoming an apothecary will ever come true.
14) Enemy or friend
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American adventure (Barbour) volume 20
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When Fred's father hires a pro-slavery supervisor in his furniture factory, Fred leaves home to live with his cousin Tim.
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American adventure (Barbour) volume 16
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Young Tim Allerton's anti-slavery views cause him problems at home and at school. Then events force him to decide on how to put his beliefs into action.
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American adventure (Barbour) volume 19
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Fred is excited when William Lloyd Garrison opens a stores in Cincinnati that won't sell anything produced by slave labor. His older sister Meg thinks there must be a way to deal with the issue that won't make people so angry.
17) Fire by night
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American adventure (Barbour) volume 4
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A cyclone flattens much of Boston, leaving the Smythe family's carpentry shop in ruins. Then, while Father is in England, the family home burns to the ground.
18) Maggie's choice
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American adventure (Barbour) volume 8
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The death of a young slave girl in Boston as well as a religious revival led by Jonathan Edwards during the Great Awakening prompt Maggie to make an important decision.
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American adventure (Barbour) volume 1
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John and Sarah Smythe set out with their parents to be colonists in the New World.
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