Mark Twain's Roughing It Sam Clemens doesn't have a plan for the future, but when his brother, Orion, travels out to Carson City via stagecoach, he decides this might be the path for him. What ensues is an exciting journey-one filled with wild card games, treacherous snow storms, prospecting disasters and more. But when all else fails, Sam falls back on the one skill that the Wild West can't take from him-his power with a pen. Huckleberry Finn Always...

HUCKLEBERRY FINNAlways in a bind, Huckleberry Finn has learned to think on his feet. When his father kidnaps him, Huck fakes his own death and escapes down the wild Mississippi. While on the run, Huck teams up with his old friend, Jim, a slave headed to free territory. Together they encounter every kind of adventure imaginable.THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYERIn his small Missouri town, Tom Sawyer is a big troublemaker. When he's not tricking others into...

Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic...

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

A simplified, abridged version of the adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century, accompanied by a short biography of Mark Twain, information about the abridgement, critical thinking questions, and other resources.

In 1860, eleven-year-old Becky Thatcher, new to St. Petersburg, Missouri, joins the boys at school in a bet to steal from the Widow Douglas in hopes of meeting a promise to have adventures that she made her brother, Jon, before he died.