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

"In his classic work Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain briefly introduces "Mary Jane, the red-headed one." In no time Mary Jane becomes the girl Huck thinks about "a many and a many million times." Now author Hope Jahren has created for Mary Jane a life as vivid and compelling as Huck's. These pages will show you the real Mary Jane. A girl on her own dangerous, unpredictable journey down the Mississippi River in pre-Civil War America. Equipped...

By retelling the story in a shorter, simpler form, children will find these books highly engaging, and the color illustrations help with both comprehension and interest level. The classic tale of the life of a mischievous small-town boy and his adventures in the 1840s as told with the timeless humor of Mark Twain. Tom attempts to impress Becky Thatcher, the new girl in town, and then with his friend Huck Finn, hunts for buried treasure, witnesses...

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.