Why read Adventures of Tom Sawyer?

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Explore or rediscover Mark Twain's novel of American adolescence in an elegantly designed, cloth-bound, portable format with an elastic closure.

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Why read it?

1 author picked Adventures of Tom Sawyer as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Terri Apter

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When I read this book as a young teen I admired the freedom the young characters had to be absorbed in their own worlds, and, as a result, constantly getting into scrapes and suffered scolding. Much later I re-read this and was struck by the comic magic of Tom and his friends, assumed to have died, returning to witness their own funeral. Here the boys who were constantly found wanting are now being praised without reservation. This reveals the see-saw action of the adolescent self: one moment teens see themselves as wonderful, beloved, treasured, and at another cast down, and…

From Terri's list on The best novels that shed light on those baffling teenage years, whether you were a teen, are a teen or parent a teen.