Book
Swift Rivers
by Cornelia Meigs
- Published
- 1932
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Words
- 62503
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 7.0
- AR interest level
- UG — upper grades, 9–12
- Lexile
- 1160L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 14–18
After his uncle drives him from home, Chris Dahlberg harvests timber from his grandfather's Minnesota land and attempts the dangerous work of floating the logs down the Mississippi to market in St. Louis.
Tags
Award Winners-Newbery HonorFictionHistorical FictionHistory-Frontier/Pioneer LifeNatural Environments-Rivers/Lakes/PondsPeople-Pioneers/SettlersSeries: Newbery Honor Roll