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Swift Rivers (A Newbery Honor book) by Cornelia Meigs is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Swift Rivers (A Newbery Honor book) about?
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.
Who reads Swift Rivers (A Newbery Honor book)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Cornelia Meigs
- Publisher
- Walker Childrens
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780802774194
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Children'S, Fiction, Juvenile
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