"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge,...

A year after moving to their farm in the Ozarks, Laura and Almanzo Wilder and their young daughter, Rose, have settled into their new home with a successful vegetable harvest and the beginnings of an apple orchard.

Classics. Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are...

When their widowed mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.

When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is wrong and, after investigating, learns that her love of automata and other machines make her the only one who can set things right.

A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "Tom Sawyer" in which Tom skips his piano lesson and goes swimming instead.

In 1894 Laura Ingalls Wilder, her husband, and her seven-year-old daughter Rose leave the Ingalls family in Dakota and make the long and difficult journey to Missouri to start a new life. From the time of the first publication of the Little House books in the 1930's and 40's, millions of readers have grown up with Laura In galls and her sisters as Pa led the family from the Big Woods of Wisconsin across the plains and Indian country to South Dakota....

A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "Tom Sawyer" in which Tom skips his piano lesson and goes swimming instead.

"Buried treasure, island hide-outs, and neighborhood pranks--it's always an adventure with Tom Sawyer! Mark Twain's classic Adventures of Tom Sawyer is finally available to younger readers thanks to this thoughtful picture book adaptation. Art by David Leonard seamlessly complements this American classic while infusing it with fresh colors for a crisp new look."--