Word count 5,825 CD: American English Suitable for young learners Bestseller

The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a nineteenth-century Mississippi River town as he witnesses a crime, hunts for the pirates' treasure, and becomes lost in a cave.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy.In the novel Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best selling of any of Twain's works during his lifetime.

Presents a brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" in which Tom skips his piano lesson and goes swimming instead.