Welcome to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's (CBC) Searchable Best Books List, a tool designed to help educators, families, librarians, and others access developmentally appropriate and engaging books for young readers (ages birth - 18).
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Adventures of Mary Jane
Hope Jahren
Illustrator: map by Virginia Norey
Ages: 12+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Delacorte Press/Random House Children's Books/PRH
ISBN: 978-0-593-48411-1
Keywords: Historical Fiction-Mississippi River. steamboats, sibling, slavery, sexual abuse, abolition, prairie, Mormons, Ojibwe
Follow the perilous 1850s journey of Huckleberry Finn's friend, the undaunted 14-year-old Mary Jane, southward on the Mississippi River from Minnesota to Mississippi. Rich period details. Map. Greyscale spot art. Extensive back matter.