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"Considered an American classic, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain is a bold coming of age story about a clever school boy who loves to make trouble and goes in search for it much too often. In this boisterous tale, Tom Sawyer finds forever friendships, new love, and a tragic secret that leads him into even more trouble than he could ever imagine for himself. Though it was Twain's first novel written by himself, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer's'...
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Classics. Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are...
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"From Percival Everett--a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards--comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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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...
7) Tom Sawyer
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[2005]
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1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Mark Twain's boy hero enters a cave with Huck and Becky to save Muff Potter, witness to murder.
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Novels volume 1
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A nineteenth-century boy, floating down the Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom.
11) Tom and Huck
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2002
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1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Tom and his friend Huck witness a midnight killing which leads to all kinds of difficulties when they swear not to reveal what they saw.
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[2012]
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1 videodisc (77, 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Huckleberry Finn : The well-known tale of the carefree Huck Finn and his adventures on his raft with the runaway slave, Jim, as they sail down the Mississippi.
Adventures of Tom Sawyer : Tom tricks the neighborhood kids into whitewashing the fence for him, later, he runs away on a raft to become a pirate. He then attends his own funeral.
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Everyman's library volume 44
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[1991]
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xxxvii, 559 pages : map ; 22 cm.
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English
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[2012]
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1 videodisc : sound color ; 4 3/4 in.
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HUCKLEBERRY FINN: After being kidnapped by his drunken father, Huck heads down the Mississippi with his buddy Jim and have many adventures. THE PROUD REBEL: After John Chandler's son goes mute following a tregedy, John searches for a doctor who can help him. Before he finds one, he and his family must work off a debt using their talented sheepdog, Lance. When a doctor is found, John has no money to pay for help for his son and must decide whether...
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2006
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1 videodisc (approximately 45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Tells the story of young Tom Sawyer and his adventures with his friend, Huckleberry Finn, while growing up in Missouri. The pair embarks on a journey where they fake their own deaths, explore a cave, and find criminals hiding from the law.
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[2005]
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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This musical rendering of Mark Twain's classic captures the genuine friendship between Huckleberry Finn and Jim. Strong-willed and self-raised, Huck decides to flee his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, when his cruel absentee father tries to kidnap him. Accompanying him is the sharp-witted Jim, who fears he is about to be sold. As this unlikely pair journey north to freedom, they develop a bond of friendship and mutual respect that will help them brave...
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