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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...
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.
7) 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.
Author
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...
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
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The excitement continues for Tom, Huck, Becky, Jim, and twenty-first century time traveler Zane as they try to intercept a steamboat carrying stolen slaves to New Orleans"--