Mark Twain and the River

Tom Sawyer is among the best-known, most-loved characters in American fiction. As everyone remembers, he and Huck Finn camped on an island, got lost in a cave, and visited an old graveyard at midnight. These adventures were based upon the author�'s real boyhood experiences along the Mississippi River. Trace Mark Twain�'s life from 1835, when his birth was heralded by Halley�'s Comet, to 1910, when the comet returned upon his death, in this fascinating biography by Newbery Honor author Sterling North.