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

by Sid Fleischman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061344311
• ISBN13: 9780061344312
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.5" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7