Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

The adventures of a boy growing up in a nineteenth-century Mississippi River town.

Join Tom Sawyer and his friends in a series of fantastic adventures: forming secret societies, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funerals, and even solving a murder. Travel down the Mississippi River to a small town in Missouri where each day brings a new adventure and find out just how exciting a boy's life can be!.

Tom Sawyer immortalizes the daily life of picturesque Missouri in the early part of the 19th century. Most of the adventures of Tom and Huck actually occurred, some of them to Mark Twain himself.

The adventures of Tom Sawyer and his friend, Huck Finn, in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century. Includes vocabulary notes in the margins and a short biography of the author.