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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| 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 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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