num_pages: 269
description: 
  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.

language: English
title: Swift Rivers
titlecomplete: Swift Rivers
genres: Fiction, Historical, Adventure, Juvenile, School, Young Adult, Middle Grade, American History, Childrens, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 1168
places: Wisconsin
awards: awardedAt: -1167580800000
name: Newbery Medal
publisher: Walker