Mark Twain: The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

 

Tom Sawyer likes adventures. When other people are sleeping in their beds, Tom Sawyer is climbing out of his bedroom window to meet his friends. He and Joe Harper and Huckleberry Finn have an exciting life. They look for ghosts, they dig for treasure, and they take a boat down the Mississippi to Jackson's Island - to swim, and fish, and sleep under the stars.

 

But Tom's adventures can be dangerous, too. One night in the graveyard he and Huck Finn see three men. Who are they? And what are they doing in the graveyard, in the middle of the night? Then the boys see that one of the men is Injun Joe ...

 

Tom and Huck never forget that night. They are afraid of Injun Joe - and they are right to be afraid. Because Injun Joe is very quick with a knife ...

 

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Oxford Bookworms Library; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998

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