| The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy) Contributor(s): Kerley, Barbara (Author), Fotheringham, Edwin (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0545125081 ISBN-13: 9780545125086 Publisher: Scholastic Press OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2009004752 |
| Lexile Measure: 1090 |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 8.78" W x 12.04" (1.17 lbs) 48 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 136067 Reading Level: 5.8 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor-winning team behind WHAT TO DO ABOUT ALICE?, a humorous and intimate portrait of the most celebrated writer in America, as told by his thirteen-year-old daughter.This is a frank biographer and an honest one; she uses no sandpaper on me. - Mark TwainAn NCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended BookInspired. -- The Washington PostFrom the award-winning team behind What to Do About Alice?, comes a humorous and intimate portrait of the most celebrated writer in America, as told by his thirteen-year-old daughter.Susy Clemens thought the world was wrong about her papa. They saw Mark Twain as a humorist joking at everything. But he was so much more, and Susy was determined to set the record straight. In a journal she kept under her pillow, Susy documented her world-famous father-from his habits (good and bad ) to his writing routine to their family's colorful home life. Her frank, funny, tender biography (which came to be one of Twain's most prized possessions) gives rare insight and an unforgettable perspective on an American icon. Inserts with excerpts from Susy's actual journal give added appeal. |