Product Description

When the raging Mississippi threatens their secret cache of hard-earned nickels and pennies, Molly and her white friend Garrett risk their lives to retrieve the money.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3402885 in Books
• Published on: 1998-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: School & Library Binding
• 169 pages

From School Library Journal
Grade 4-6-The year is 1927. After months of rain, the Mississippi River is flooding. The water is almost up to the doors of the houses in which Molly Bride and Garrett Wood live. Molly, who is black, and Garrett, who is white, have been saving every stray nickel or penny they earn for great plans when they get older and have hidden the money deep in the bayou. When the flood threatens to wash it away, the children get on their homemade raft to pole over to save it. Unfortunately, the raft is pulled into the flood's current, and they are in for a wild and dangerous ride. Although the story starts out slowly, once the two friends are swept away, it becomes a real page-turner. Every chapter contains a life-threatening struggle. Molly's fight with a cottonmouth is particularly gripping. This would make a great booktalk, particularly when paired with Patricia Lauber's Flood: Wrestling with the Mississippi (National Geographic, 1996), a nonfiction title that's also about the 1927 flood.
Elaine Lesh Morgan, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Customer Reviews

Another great book from the Survival series.
Most people think it's odd that Garrett Wood and Molly Bride are best friends. The place is Mississippi, the year 1927, and Garrett is white while Molly is black. But they ignore what everyone else says and remain friends. They're united in their dreams of getting away from their dreary lives on cotton farms. For some time now they've been saving money in a jar in the bayou. When the rising waters of the Mississippi threaten to put the bayou underwater, Garrett and Molly set out on their little homemade raft to retrieve the money. But instead, they end up being swept down the river. They encounter dangerous currents filled with debris, poisonous snakes, and storms. Their journey will truly test their courage and friendship. An excellant survival story with historical details about life in the south in the 1920s.

Another exciting, page turning Survival! book.
Molly Bride and Garrett Wood are both from poor families barely making a living on Mississippi cotton farms in 1927. Molly and Garrett dream of getting away from Mayersville, their little home town. So for three years, they've been saving up nickels and pennies and hiding them in a secret place. But the rising, raging Mississippi threatens the money, and Molly and Garrett go to retrieve it. But the current wins, and they find themselves headed up the turbulent Mississippi on a little homemade raft. Can Molly and Garrett survive? I couldn't put this book down! The part with the water moccasin was so scary, I felt as if I was there. A very, very exciting book!

Good Book!
Another thriller from the SURVIVAL! series. These historical survival adventures are awesome. This book isn't as action-packed as the others, but it held particular interest to me becuase I'm of African-American descent like Molly and this adventure is set in just a turbulent time of history. I like that Garrett and Molly are best friends despite their skin color, and I like the fact they they fight together to survive the flood and get out alive.