The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West

"Mark Twain was born fully grown, with a cheap cigar clamped between his teeth." So begins Sid Fleischman's ramble-scramble biography of the great American author and wit, who started life in a Missouri village as a barefoot boy named Samuel Clemens.Abandoning a career as a young steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River, Sam took a bumpy stagecoach to the Far West. In the gold and silver fields, he expected to get rich quick. Instead, he got poor...

By Sid Fleischman
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Greenwillow Books (August 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061344311
ASIN: B002VPE7UG
Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.2 x 10 inches
Amazon Rank: 12571653
Format: PDF ePub djvu ebook

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overall good, but my sone feels little hard for his level.

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