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The Actual & Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher by Jessica Lawson
4.0
Cute book, excellent idea, well executed.
"If I stay out any longer, people might start thinking I fell in the river and drowned. Miss Ada would be awful sad at my funeral. Come to think of it, not too many people get to see their own funeral. Might be worth an extra couple of days."
His eyes twinkle. "Isn't that an idea? Visiting your own funeral." He took out his notebook and jotted something down.
An imagined precursor to [b:The Adventures of Tom Sawyer|24583|The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, #1)|Mark Twain|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1404811979s/24583.jpg|41326609] and [b:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn|2956|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, #2)|Mark Twain|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1405973850s/2956.jpg|1835605], [b:The Actual & Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher|18273285|The Actual & Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher|Jessica Lawson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1375295239s/18273285.jpg|25738994] includes a young Samuel Clemens, taking notes and thinking he may just become a writer someday. Becky Thatcher provides his inspiration in a mostly predictable but still clever and entertaining series of adventures. Perhaps you need to be a fan of Mark Twain to particularly enjoy this story, but I am, and so I did. Thank you to Jessica Lawson, for reminding me.
"If I stay out any longer, people might start thinking I fell in the river and drowned. Miss Ada would be awful sad at my funeral. Come to think of it, not too many people get to see their own funeral. Might be worth an extra couple of days."
His eyes twinkle. "Isn't that an idea? Visiting your own funeral." He took out his notebook and jotted something down.
An imagined precursor to [b:The Adventures of Tom Sawyer|24583|The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, #1)|Mark Twain|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1404811979s/24583.jpg|41326609] and [b:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn|2956|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, #2)|Mark Twain|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1405973850s/2956.jpg|1835605], [b:The Actual & Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher|18273285|The Actual & Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher|Jessica Lawson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1375295239s/18273285.jpg|25738994] includes a young Samuel Clemens, taking notes and thinking he may just become a writer someday. Becky Thatcher provides his inspiration in a mostly predictable but still clever and entertaining series of adventures. Perhaps you need to be a fan of Mark Twain to particularly enjoy this story, but I am, and so I did. Thank you to Jessica Lawson, for reminding me.