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In the summer of 1864, a teen-age boy meets reporter Mark Twain in San Franciso after a murder, and agrees to help him get the story.

First biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco.

"On the eve of their class trip, best friends Lee Jones and Joan Lee each learn their parents are getting divorced.