The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Contributor(s): Benitez, Paula (Editor), Twain, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 1540781348 ISBN-13: 9781540781345 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $17.34 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6" W x 9" (0.65 lbs) 198 pages |
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Publisher Description: Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid. He skips school to swim and is made to whitewash the fence the next day as punishment. He cleverly persuades his friends to trade him small treasures for the privilege of doing his work. He then trades the treasures for Sunday School tickets which one normally receives for memorizing verses consistently, redeeming them for a Bible, much to the surprise and bewilderment of the superintendent who thought "it was simply preposterous that this boy had warehoused two thousand sheaves of Scriptural wisdom on his premises |