Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain's 1876 masterpiece captures something that every reader once had and most have lost: a summer so long it felt like forever, a river wide enough to hold every dream, and the kind of freedom that comes from being young and mostly unsupervised in a world made for climbing and exploring. Tom Sawyer is twelve years old, bored by school, in love with a girl named Becky Thatcher, and destined for trouble. Along with his ragged, wild best friend Huckleberry Finn, Tom navigates the code of childhood honor, pulls off legendary cons (most famously convincing his friends to whitewash a fence for him), and stumbles into real danger when they get lost in a cave with deadly consequences looming. The Mississippi River runs through this book like a vein of pure possibility. It's a novel that remembers what it felt like to be young and convinced the world was yours for the taking. Anyone who has ever been twelve, or who remembers being twelve, or who longs to be twelve again, will find something here.