The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Courage Literary Classics)

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Summary: Five kids from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Review: This is one of those books that, if you haven't yet read it, people will just drop their jaws (if they're carrying them, anyways) and start to blubber when they find out you haven't read one of the classic all-American books.
This book's a must read. I would say, "stop reading this review and go read it," but then you might scoff. This is the origin of the kid-who's-painting-fence-and-tricks-others-to-do-it-for-him story.
This is a great story of adventure and danger and the Nonesuch and all. You've heard bits and pieces. You've probably seen some movie version that butchered it all and blended Huck Finn with Tom Sawyer. You really ought to take 4 hours out of your life and read this.
You'll feel more American when you're done. You'll also be a bit disappointed in some of the uses of language, but that's alright. It's part of that time period; it's part of that environment.