Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer
An imaginative and mischievous boy named Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother, Sid. After playing hooky from school on Friday and dirtying his clothes in a fight, Tom is made to whitewash the fence as punishment on Saturday.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Set in the town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi River, Huckleberry Finn, a poor boy with a drunken bum for a father, and his friend Tom Sawyer, a middle-class boy with an imagination too active for his own good, found a robber’s stash of gold.