Title: An American ghost
Description: When flood waters sweep his house down the Mississippi River in the 1860s, Wisconsin fourteen-year-old Albie encounters a mountain lion that is also trying desperately to stay alive, and that proves less dangerous than the men Albie meets next.
Subjects: History, Puma, Frontier and pioneer life, Survival, Human-animal relationships, Fiction, Children's fiction, Survival, fiction, Human-animal relationships, fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, Mississippi river, fiction, Puma, fiction
Places: Mississippi River
Time periods: 19th century