Who Was Mark Twain?

by April Jones Prince, Who HQ, John O'Brien (Illustrator)

Overview

A humorist, narrator, and social observer, Mark Twain is unsurpassed in American literature. Best known as the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, not unlike his protagonist, Huck, has a restless spirit. He found adventure prospecting for silver in Nevada, navigating steamboats down the Mississippi, and making people laugh around the world. But Twain also had a serious streak and decried racism and injustice. His fascinating life is captured candidly in this enjoyable biography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780448433196
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	05/24/2004
Series:	Who Was? Series
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	93,395
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 7.63(h) x 0.23(d)
Lexile:	910L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

April Prince lives with her husband, David, and their sons in a house full of antiques in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

	Who Was Mark Twain?	1
	In with the Comet	3
	Life on the Mississippi	14
	Roughing It	29
	The Celebrated Jumping Frog	43
	The Gilded Age	56
	Tom and Huck	68
	Following the Equator	78
	Waiting for the Comet	91