Re-presenting-- completely unabridged-- the original Mark Twain classic that started it all! In 1840's Missouri, twelve-year old Tom Sawyer spends his days disrupting the schoolhouse, tricking his friends into doing his chores, sparring with his little half-brother Sid, courting Becky Thatcher, and playing make believe pirates with Joe Harper on Jackson's Island. But one night-- while in the wrong place at the wrong time with his best friend Huckleberry Finn-- Tom and Huck become the lone witnesses to a grisly murder-- and they must decide between doing the right thing and reporting what they've seen-- or staying silent to protect themselves from becoming the killer's next victims! Fully illustrated throughout with photographs of the cast of Super Science Showcase's Tom & Huck adventures, this brand new edition also includes exciting real fact articles about the true history and science featured in the story, written by the Super Science Showcase staff-- and also includes a BRAND NEW Tom and Huck short story adventure!

MARK TWAIN (1835-1910), pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer who became one of America's greatest and most popular writers. Twain was born in Florida, Missouri, and grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, the state which influenced much of his writing. Twain acquired fame for his travel stories such as Life on the Mississippi (1883), and for his boyhood adventure novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).