Books with title Tom Sawyer, Avenger

In the Preface, Mayor LaGuardia ("The Little Flower") encourages youngsters to "invite Emerson, Twain or Cooper" into their home" reminding them "that you pick your books like your friends" and "if you read trashy books, in all likelihood, you will have trashy friends" and other words of wisdom (?). That small Preface makes this book worth having in itself. Classic Mark Twain tale of the adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Tom Sawyer is a respectable boy in a little Mississippi River town. Huck Finn is a freedom-loving, neglected outcast. What better playmate could Tom want? One night, innocent games of pirates and Robin Hood turn serious when the boys witness a murder in the graveyard. The murderer will kill them if they tell the truth. What should they do? The boys decide to search for the murderer’s treasure. What risks will they take? Who else will they endanger? Will they have the courage and quick thinking to escape from dark caverns, cross the mighty Mississippi, and outwit the criminals? Will they find what they are looking for? Real Reads are retellings of the classics of world literature, each fitted into a 64-page book. Our books make classic stories, dramas and histories available to young readers as a bridge to the full texts, to reluctant readers as a gentle introduction to a world of wonderful literature, to language students wanting access to other cultures, and to adult readers who are unlikely ever to read the original versions, or simply don’t have time to!