Ms. Lawson asks "what if" Samuel Clemens actually met an adventurous girl like Becky and it was she who actually inspired him to write Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?
Readers will fall in love with Becky's bold personality and her desire for excitement. She and her new bosom friend, Amy, encounter brothers who are notorious thieves and maybe murderers in a graveyard. Not only does Becky have to deal with threats from the thieves, but she has to process her beloved brother's recent death, her mother's depression, and has to clear an innocent villager's name. Her doom seems imminent when she enters the thieves' cave hideout. Will her quick wit and cleverness rescue her from death?!
Very exciting and entertaining!
*Highly recommend.
Points to discuss/warnings: lying, sneaking out in the middle of the night, superstitions, some violence, betting, a boy tries to smoke a left behind cigarette, accusing a woman in the village a "witch", brother's death, mother's abandonment(mother is shut up in room and won't interact with Becky)/depression
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