Chafed by the "sivilized" restrictions of his foster home, and weary of his drunkard father's brutality, 14 year-old Huck Finn fakes his own death and sets off

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is a novel about a young boy growing up in the fictional small town of Hannibal, Missouri along the Mississippi River

Siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert were planning toadopt an orphaned boy to help out around their farm, Green Gables - instead,they got Anne Shirley. A pluck