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Brooklyn-based writer Alexandra Tanner, whose work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Gawker and more, has crafted a darkly funny story of sisterhood with Worry, which opens in March ...
At one time, his Penrod series was as well known as Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. [citation needed] Seventeen, a coming-of-age story, sold some 1.7 million copies during the 1895–1975 period. Although written for an adult audience, it came to be regarded as a children's book and was one of the best-selling books of the era in that category ...
Thomas "Tom" Sawyer, based on the young Samuel Clemens, is a cunning and playful boy of unspecified (although he loses one of his upper front teeth in the story) years of age, and the protagonist of the story. His best friends include Joe Harper and Huckleberry Finn.
His friends find him washed up on the shore, and Tom finds it was Huckleberry "Huck" Finn who carried him to safety. Tom later meets Huck discovering an unusual way to remove warts - by taking a dead cat to the graveyard at night. There, they witness Joe and Muff Potter, the town drunk, digging up the grave of Vic "One-Eyed" Murrell for Robinson.
Everyone loves a good family story, whether it’s the madcap cousins-run-amok tale you hear around the Thanksgiving table every year or some bit of history Grandpa lets slip casually on a Sunday ...
The Magic Egg and Other Stories, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908; The Squirrel Inn, The Century Company,1891; The Lost Dryad, United Workers of Greenwich, 1912; The Novels and Stories, 23 Vol., Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899–1904; Fairy Tales of Frank Stockton, Penguin Books, 1990 (Edited and with a critical afterword by Jack Zipes). ISBN 0-451 ...
While news of book bans in Florida has spread across the country, even informal challenges to books in Palm Beach County remain rare.. Between the start of the 2023-24 school year on Aug. 10 and ...
This isn't crucial to life as we know it, and I applaud the posting of the huckleberry article, but there is the contradiction that Wikipedia should strive to avert. If I may state in one sentence the effect of the first 2 sentences of the 4th paragraph: "The various species of plant called huckleberry have berries that contain 10 seeds."