Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs

Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs

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.

Cornelia Lynde Meigs was an American children's author and educator. Her biography of Louisa May Alcott, Invincible Louisa, won the Newbery Medal in 1934, as well as the 1963 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. Windy Hill, Clearing Weather, and Swift Rivers also received Newbery Honor awards.

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ISBN 13	9780802777034
ISBN 10	0802777031
Title	Swift Rivers
Author	Cornelia Meigs
Series	Newbery Honor Book
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Walker & Co
Year published	2004-10-01
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Commended for Newbery Medal (Children's) 1933
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