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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.

An adaptation of Mark Twain's novel, which chronicles the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.

An adaptation of Mark Twain's novel, which chronicles the adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.

Presents an illustrated adaptation of the story of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.

A simple retelling of the adventures of Tom and his friends, who witness a murder by the villainous Injun Joe and sail the Mississippi River pretending to be pirates.

Twelve-year-old Billy James tries to come to terms with the sudden death of his best friend and learns about himself, his own family history, and life in his small hometown in the Ozark mountains.

Includes an introduction , over 300 illustrations, and many notes explaining or commenting on the text.

The adventures of a boy growing up in a nineteenth-century Mississippi River town, as he plays hookey on an island, witnesses a crime, hunts for pirates' treasure, and becomes lost in a cave.

Meg Wells begins her diary in 1848 when she leaves her family behind to live with relatives in Kansas in order to escape the cholera epidemic in St. Louis.

The adventures of a boy growing up in a nineteenth-century Mississippi River town as he plays hookey on an island, witnesses a crime, hunts for the pirates' treasure, and becomes lost in a cave.