The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain’s real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born on 30 November 1835 in Florida, Missouri, USA. When he was four years old he and his family went to live in Hannibal, Missouri, a town on the Mississippi River. He grew up on the river and a lot of the adventures in his books happened to him when he was a boy. When he was twenty-two years old he started working as a steamboat1 pilot on the Mississippi River. [...]

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Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and the other children of St Petersburg went to a one-room school. There were many one-room schools in villages and small towns in the United States during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. During the late 1800s there were about 190,000 one-room schools, and today there are about 400. What was the one-room school like? The school looked like a small house with one big room. [...]

"Ghosts!” said Huck. “I can see ghosts! They’re coming here and I’m really scared!” “Can ghosts see us?” asked Tom. “Sure, ghosts can see everything,” answered Huck. “Oh, why did I come here?” “Don’t be afraid,” said Tom. “Let’s not make any noise.” The three ghosts moved quietly in the graveyard. They came close to Tom and Huck. “Tom!” whispered Huck. “They’re not ghosts, they’re people. And one of them is Muff Potter. I know his voice. [...]

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Tom Sawyer and his friends lived in the American state of Missouri. The word Missouri comes from the name of an American Indian people called Missouria which meant "town of the large canoes."1 Seven American Indian tribes lived in Missouri before the European explorers came. They were the Chickasaw, Illini, Ioway, Missouria, Osage, Oto and Quapaw tribes. [...]

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