Tom Sawyer

By Arvin S. Gibson

These digital Classics are abridged and adapted into reading leveled high-interest, low readability illustrated chapter novels including the complete story in 10 short chapters. This high-interest low-readability title is appropriate for all ages. Introduce students to great classic literature while improving comprehension, vocabulary and fluency.

• Language: English
• Publisher: EdCon Publishing
• Release date: Feb 23, 2023
• ISBN: 9780848111113

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Bring the Classics to Life

TOM SAWYER

LEVEL 2

Series Designer

Philip J. Solimene

Editor

Virginia B. Heflin

EDCON

About the Author

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorn Clemens November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri, the sixth of seven children. At age four the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri on the banks of the Mississippi River. When Sam was eleven his father died. Shortly thereafter, he left school having completed the fifth grade to work as a printer’s apprentice for a local newspaper. In 1859 he worked as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River until the American Civil War. He became a reporter for the Territorial Enterprise in Nevada and seeking a pen name used a riverboat phrase twain or two fathoms (12 feet). He traveled extensively and married Olivia Langdon in 1870 and they settled in Hartford, Connecticut. Much of Twain’s best work was written in the 1870’s and 1880’s in Hartford or at Quarry Farm near Elmira, New York. Mark Twain died in 1891.Some of his novels include: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Life on the Mississippi, The Prince and the Pauper. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer reflects many of his own boyhood experiences..

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Tom Sawyer

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ePub-NE ISBN 0-8481-1136-2

ePub-NE ISBN 9-780848-11136-6

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