Level 1: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Edition 2

by Mark Twain

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405842778
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	02/21/2008
Series:	Pearson English Graded Readers
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	340L (what's this?)

About the Author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), best known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an author and humorist noted for the novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (which has been called "The Great American Novel") and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, among many other books. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and he spent time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before finding fame as a writer.

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut