The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer, an orphan raised by his Aunt Polly in the fictional Mississippi River town of St. Petersburg, spends the summer of the 1840s dodging school, courting Becky Thatcher, running away to play pirate on Jackson's Island with Huck Finn and Joe Harper, and stumbling into genuine danger when he witnesses Injun Joe murder Dr. Robinson in a graveyard. Tom and Huck swear a blood oath of silence, but Tom's conscience eventually drives him to testify at Muff Potter's murder trial, exposing the real killer. After getting lost in McDougal's Cave with Becky — nearly dying — and discovering Injun Joe's hidden treasure, Tom emerges as the town hero. Huck is reluctantly adopted into respectable society, and Tom's boyhood adventures end on the cusp of something more complicated.

Tom Sawyer is an imaginative, irrepressible boy living with his Aunt Polly, half-brother Sid, and cousin Mary in St. Petersburg, Missouri, a drowsy village along the Mississippi River in antebellum America. Tom's world is governed by small rebellions: skipping school, fighting new boys, sneaking out...