Swift Rivers

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Published: 10/01/2004
ISBN: 9780802777034
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.90d
Award: Newbery Medal - Honor Book
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 20306 / Swift Rivers
Reading Level: 7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 11