: Tom Sawyer can’t seem to keep out of trouble. Living with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother, Sid, in St. Petersburg, by the Mississippi River, he keeps getting into one sort of mischief or the other. He dirties his clothes, and his aunt forces him to whitewash the paint, which he masterfully connives his friends into doing for him. He uses the Sunday School tickets, given to prodigious scholars to exchange for a Bible when one has enough, to procure treasures. An irascible boy, Tom is so troublesome to have around that the superintendent of the school realizes that if there are more like him, he would be at his wit’s end.
: Nancy Drew #139 - The Secret of Candlelight Inn (No:4694)
: Carolyn Keene
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: When Emmaline Whitby died, she bequeathed the historic Candlelight Inn to the Guiding Eyes foundation. Dedicated to helping the blind, the foundation plans to create a training center for Seeing Eye dogs. But as Nancy is about to discover, the inn is not only full of hope and history, it’s also packed with deep secrets and dark dangers…
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