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Longshanks

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Author(s):Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):Edward C. Caswell
Publisher(s): Harcourt, Brace and Company
Year Published: 1928
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Adventure
American
Boys Growing Up
Fiction - Novel
Historical Fiction - Civil War
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 243
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 4687616

Description

Tad Hopkins is on his way downriver to New Orleans to meet his father when he is unceremoniously tossed into the river by a thief. He is rescued by a young flatboat man - Abe Lincoln.

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Other Editions

Longshanks (1945)

Thad Hopkins is going downriver to meet his father in New Orleans when he is unceremoniously tossed overboard by a thief. He is rescued by a passing flatboat man -- Abe Lincoln. This is the second edition with new illustrations by Edward Shenton.

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Co.
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Longshanks (2006)

Thad Hopkins is going downriver to meet his father in New Orleans when he is unceremoniously thrown in the river by a thief. He is rescued by a flatboat man -- Abe Lincoln.

Publisher: Southern Skies
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