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Swift Rivers

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By Cornelia Meigs
Publisher Walker Company
Swift Rivers
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Barred from his family home stead by his meanspirited uncle, eighteenyearold 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 grandfathers 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 fastpaced novel has all the momentum of the great Mississippi.

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61362 words61,362 words
269 pages269 pages
Lexile 1160LLexile 1160L
Grade 5 to 10Grade 5 to 10
Age 10-15Age 10-15

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Book ISBN:

9780802774194

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