Minn of the Mississippi

Description:

Follows the adventures of Minn, a three-legged snapping turtle, as she slowly makes her way from her birthplace at the headwaters of the Mississippi River to the mouth of river on the Gulf of Mexico.

subjects: Juvenile Fiction,  Turtle,  Newbery Honor,  Juvenile fiction,  Snapping turtles,  Turtles,  Fiction,  Juvenile literature,  Animals,  Dams,  River steamers,  United States,  Voyages and travels,  Historical,  Nature & the Natural World,  Boat living,  Ecology,  Indians of North America,  River life,  Hurricanes,  Floods,  Nature stories,  JUVENILE FICTION,  Mississippi river, fiction

Places: Mississippi River