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Author
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century. Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It's something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom's sly trickery with the whitewashed fence, when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him, to his and Becky Thatcher's calamities in Bat Cave, the...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the classic novel "The adventures of Tom Sawyer" comes the newest adaptation of this timeless tale. Tom Sawyer has nothing but pranks and mischief on his mind, but luckily his fearless friend Huck Finn loves adventure as much as he does. When the daring duo witness trouble in a graveyard, Tom and Huck are thrown head-first into adventure, putting their courage to the test!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1983
Physical Desc
xii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
These unjustly neglected works are among the most enjoyable of Mark Twain's novels. Tom Sawyer Abroad sets the three characters so popular in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn--Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Jim--and sends them on a balloon trip to Africa. The balloon has wings and fans which can propel it a hundred miles an hour in still air and three hundred miles an hour with a stiff tail wind. Tom is again the manager, the one with information...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 44
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1991]
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 559 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A simplified retelling of the classic story of the mischievous 19th-century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, as they run away from home, witness a murder, and find treasure in a cave.
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (77, 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Huckleberry Finn : The well-known tale of the carefree Huck Finn and his adventures on his raft with the runaway slave, Jim, as they sail down the Mississippi.
Adventures of Tom Sawyer : Tom tricks the neighborhood kids into whitewashing the fence for him, later, he runs away on a raft to become a pirate. He then attends his own funeral.
11) Huck out west
Author
Series
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In Robert Coover's Huck Out West, also "wrote by Huck," the boys escape "sivilization" and "light out for the Territory," riding for the famous but short-lived Pony Express, then working as scouts for both sides in the war. They are suddenly separated when Tom decides he'd rather own civilization than leave it, returning east with his new wife, Becky Thatcher, to learn the law from her father. Huck, abandoned and "dreadful lonely," hires himself out...
12) The birthday boy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "Tom Sawyer" in which Tom learns a lesson about honesty on his brother's birthday.
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Standard full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A legion of superheroes, the likes of which mankind had never seen, must band together under the leadership of Allan Quatermain to save the world from "The Fantom" who is threatening to launch a global Armageddon.
15) Tom Sawyer
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mark Twain's boy hero enters a cave with Huck and Becky to save Muff Potter, witness to murder.
16) Tom Sawyer
Author
Series
All-action classic volume no. 2
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
GN 400L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer", in which Tom Sawyer finds adventure and friendship along the Mississippi River.
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The adventures of Tom Sawyer: Tom and his friend Huckleberry Finn are always getting into trouble, but when they witness a murder, they take a vow of silence and head down river on a raft. The whole town thinks they're dead, so when they return, they are in even more trouble--and not only with their families. The trial for the murder begins, and the killer needs to make sure they don't tell what they know.
Lil' treasure hunters: Nine-year-old Molly...
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 86 min.) : sound, anamorphic, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huck Finn sneak onto Mark Twain's balloon. Twain is out to find Halley's Comet, but this encounter may be too close for everyone. As the journey progresses, Twain shares other tales from life on the Mississippi.