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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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An adaptation of the classic novel in which young Tom Sawyer embarks on a series of adventures along the Mississippi River with his friends Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, including witnessing a murder, looking for buried treasure, and, of course, whitewashing a fence.
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Series
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Tom, always looking for trouble, finds it when he sets out to become Hannibal's First Traveler. Tom, Huck, and Jim find themselves kidnapped by a mad inventor, sailing cross the Atlantic and into Arabian adventure on a hot-air balloon.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
Becky Thatcher wants to set the record straight. She was never the weeping ninny Mark Twain made her out to be in his famous novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. She knew Samuel Clemens before he was "Mark Twain," when he was a wide-eyed dreamer who never could get his facts straight. Yes, she was Tom's childhood sweetheart, but the true story of their love, and the dark secret that tore it apart, never made it into Twain's novel. Now married to Tom's...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 500L
Language
English
Description
"In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark Twain combines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer is resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious. In a series of adventures along the banks of the Mississippi, he usually manages to come out on top. From petty triumphs over his friends and over his long-suffering Aunt Polly, to his intervention in a murder trial,...
Author
Series
Cracked classics volume 2
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Devin Bundy and Francine Lang accidentally step from their school library onto the pages of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," where their respect for the title character grows by leaps and bounds.
10) Tom Sawyer
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Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
This is a 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.
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Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Rebel, daredevil and gang leader, Tom Sawyer is one of the original adventurers. Over a sleepy summer in his small town, he dreams of becoming a pirate, an explorer or an outlaw. But, after witnessing a gruesome crime in the town graveyard, he sets off on an adventure far more thrilling that any of his daydreams.
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Huckleberry Finn and his friend, an escaped slave named Jim, face adventure as they travel down the Mississippi River; when Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn witness a murder, they try to decide whether to keep the truth a secret or reveal the identity of the killer.
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Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Tom Sawyer loves adventure. He has them at home, at school, and with his friends - Huck Finn, Joe Harper and Becky Thatcher. Tom has one adventure in a graveyard, and one in a cave. Who does he see in those places, and why is he afraid?"--Book cover.
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