Presents Mark Twain's classic novel about the adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town during the mid-nineteenth century, and includes a study guide.
Mark Twain's classic novel "Huckleberry Finn" about the adventures and misadventures of a young boy who attempts to help Jim, a runaway slave, find freedom in the North.
Jay Clute goes back to his hometown after he had left twenty years before. His aunt is dead and she left everything to him, including the toys. Nothing has changed. Not the painted-on dolly smiles or the garish clown colors or the tiny hands that were dripping with blood.
Ten-year-old Bobby Smith, son of the local pharmacist and the host of the radio show "Neighbor Dorothy," grows to manhood in Elmwood, Missouri, observing the people and the changes that affect the small town in the decades after the end of World War II.
Provides information about some of the attractions of Missouri through the story of Missy, a moose who thinks everything is boring until she meets Mighty Mo, the "Show Me" superhero.
Nineteenth-century American author Mark Twain's novel in which Huck Finn, the son of the town drunk, and Jim, an escaped slave, make a break for freedom down the Mississippi River on a raft; includes two critical essays.
Presents Mark Twain's 1876 children's book about the adventures of a mischievous Missouri boy named Tom Sawyer, growing up a few decades before the Civil War; also includes essays by American writers Edgar Lee Masters and William Dean Howells.
