When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life. Includes a brief biography of the author.
Young Prince Edward and Tom Canty, a pauper boy who looks just like the royal youth, both learn something about "pleasures and palaces" when they accidentally switch places in sixteenth-century England. Includes an introduction by Christopher Paul Curtis, and a reading group guide.
Presents Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, " the story of a spirited boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century, and includes explanatory notes, an overview of themes, critical analysis, and other resources.
Slave woman Roxana switches her baby with the infant son of the master of the house in an attempt to ensure her child will not be sold down the river, but the episode has tragic results for everyone involved.
