sawyer, tom (fictitious character)

An unabridged republication of the 1876 novel about the adventures of a young boy in nineteenth-century rural America.

The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in Missouri during the early nineteenth century.

First biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco.

Presents a brief retelling of Mark Twain's classic story of Tom Sawyer and how he tricked his friends into painting a fence.

The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.

An adaptation of the Mark Twain classic in which the world is altered by a zombie virus that turns people into "Zum," and Tom and his friends sharpen fence posts to fight the Zum and protect the town.

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.

The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.

Presents a story left unfinished by Mark Twain and completed by Lee Nelson, in which Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer mount a daring rescue after their friend Jim, a runaway slave, as well as the daughters of a family that had befriended the boys, are kidnapped by a group of Sioux Indians.

Tom Sawyer and his friends take a trip by balloon to Egypt; Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn must solve a murder mystery.