Mark Twain's classic tale of Tom Sawyer and his friend Huck Finn delighted generations of readers. Here, Twain gives the reader more. Tom, unsatisfied with his life after his adventures on the Mississippi River, seeks out new adventures. Written from Huck's viewpoint, follow Tom, Huck and Jim as they take a hot air balloon ride across the ocean. Tom Sawyer, Detective is a retelling of a true story originally set in Sweden. Twain puts Tom,

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This is Mark Twain's first novel about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, and it has become one of the world's best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of Mark Twain's own boyhood along the banks of the Mississippi during the 1840s. "Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred," he tells us. This is a book one never forgets: Tom whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence, Tom and Huck's dreadful oath, their...