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Language
English
Description
Drawing on never-before-seen documents and told from a unique insider's viewpoint, the CNN anchor tells the story of his legendary family and their remarkable influence.
When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father's small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money,...
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Marie-Grace can't wait to begin her journey up the Mississippi River with her father. The steamboat they're traveling on is the biggest and fanciest boat Marie-Grace has ever seen. It's crowded with all sorts of interesting passengers, including Wilhelmina Newman, a girl her age. Wilhelmina is traveling alone, and she's carrying a secret in one of her trunks--clues to hidden Gold Rush treasure. Marie-Grace and Wilhelmina have to unravel the clues...
Author
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Dead Man Overboard!
Delilah Dickinson's literary travel agency is a hit! But the latest package tour, a leisurely steamboat trip down Huckleberry Finn's Mississippi, delivered one dead passenger. As it turns out, Ben Webster made a few enemies before he expired by trying to slug a roulette dealer. Delilah knows the steamship's no-nonsense head of security definitely is dirty and low-down and just plain old mean... But could he be a murderer? Pretty...
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Mississippi river floods, adventure-loving Little Toot sets out on a daring rescue mission. The plucky little tugboat, with the help of several forlorn old steamboats, once again faces a challenge to his resourcefulness.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1896, fourteen-year-old Megan joins her sister and family on their steamboat for the summer riding up the Mississippi River towards St. Paul, Minnesota, and through all of their adventures, Megan realizes what is her "true calling."
10) Robert Fulton
Author
Publisher
Mitchell Lane Publishers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A simple look at the life of the famous inventor.
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Set aboard a nineteenth century riverboat theater, this is the moving, page-turning story of a charmingly frank and naive seamstress who is blackmailed into saving Ranaways on the Underground Railroad, jeopardizing her freedom, her livelihood, and a new love. It's 1838, and May Bedloe works as a seamstress for her cousin, the famous actress Comfort Vertue--until their steamboat sinks on the Ohio River. Though they both survive, both must find new...
15) Dead water
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Nineteenth-century New Orleans is a blazing hotbed of scorching politics and personal vendettas. And it's into this fire that Benjamin January falls when he is hired to follow Oliver Weems, a bank official who has absconded with $100,000 in gold and securities. But it's more than just a job for January. The missing money is vital to the survival of the school for freed slaves that he and his wife Rose have founded.
Following the suspected embezzler...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey, without any comfort. Rose grows...
18) Race for freedom
Author
Series
Riverboat adventures volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1857, while helping to conceal a runaway slave on her father's Mississippi River steamboat, twelve-year-old Libby looks to God for support and hopes that her friend Caleb will let her join the Underground Railroad.
Author
Series
Riverboat adventures volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1857, while working for the Underground Railroad on a Mississippi River steamboat, thirteen-year-old Libby hunts for the swindler who has robbed her father and tries to reunite the fugitive slave Jordan with his missing father.
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