BOOKS

_Stories for Young People: Mark Twain_ edited by Gregg Camfield.
Illustrated by Sally Wern Comport. Hardcover. 80 pages. 10.3 x 9.0 x 0.6
inches. Sterling Publishing, 2005. ISBN: 1402711786. $14.95. With colorful
and eye-catching illustrations, this collection (recommended for grades
6-9) will be one that many Twain Forum members will want to add to their
own bookshelves. The book includes a brief introduction, "An Encounter with
an Interviewer," "The Invalid's Story," "Advice to Youth," "The £1,000,000
Banknote," and "A Fable." There is a short section for word definitions at
the bottom of many pages to introduce young readers to vocabulary words
which may be new to them.

Amazon webpage for this book is:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1402711786/twainwebmarktwaiA

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_The Adventures of Tom Sawyer_ edited by Lucy Rollin. Softcover. 315 pages.
Broadview Press, 2006. ISBN: 1551116529. $9.95. This edition of Mark
Twain's novel contains a wealth of introductory material, four appendixes
and a bibliography. The supplementary material focuses on composition of
the original manuscript, marketing, contemporary reviews; Twain's memories
of Hannibal; other "Bad Boys and Boy Books" of the nineteenth century; and
"Small Town American Childhood in the 1840s."

The publisher's table of contents webpage for this book is:
http://www.broadviewpress.com/bvcontents.asp?BookID=754

Amazon web page for this book is:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1551116529/twainwebmarktwaiA

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_Mark Twain in St. Louis: A Biographical Tour Through Bellefontaine
Cemetery_ by Manuel Garcia. Softcover. 156 pages (unpaginated). 7 7/8 x 10
x 3/8 inches. Privately published, no ISBN. $15.00 + $2.00 postage. An
illustrated guidebook for touring Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis,
Missouri. The book was written by cemetery employee Manuel Garcia, formerly
of the _St. Louis Dispatch_ newspaper. Garcia has studied Mark Twain's
works, correspondence, notebooks and biographies for names of people Twain
knew and wrote about who were buried in Bellefontaine cemetery. Garcia's
book contains brief biographies and supplemental information along with
maps of gravesites (and former gravesites) of such notables as George
Horatio Derby; steamboat pilots Beck Jolly, Zebulon Leavenworth, Isaiah
Sellers, Horace Bixby and George Ealer; family members such as the Moffetts
and Lamptons; Samuel Taylor Glover (the inspiration for attorney Pudd'nhead
Wilson); and a host of others who were part of Twain's life. The book will
be a valuable research aid for anyone planning a walking research tour of
Bellefontaine in St. Louis, Missouri. (NONFICTION)

Information on available copies may be obtained from the author:
Manuel Garcia, 43C Quarry Court, Golden Eagle, IL 62036

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_After the Bones_ by Mark Hazard Osmun. Softcover. 363 pages. 6 x 9 inches.
Twelfth Night Press, 2006. ISBN: 0-9673-0791-0. $16.95.  A novel of
political intrigue, murder and conspiracy set in the Sandwich Islands
(Hawaii) in 1866 featuring Mark Twain in his role as a traveling reporter
for the _Sacramento Daily Union_ newspaper. (FICTION)

This novel is available only via the author's website at:
http://www.lulu.com/content/271964

Barbara Schmidt
Book Review Editor