It's nice to know that teens DO still have an affinity for Twain's work, especially since the pieces that I think teens would most like tend to be buried in long books or collections that are not at all accessible. I think, for example, of Mr. Brown vomiting over Mr. Twain's doggerel verse rendition of Polonious's advice to Laertes, or the original Palestine dispatch that describes dried camel dung stuck to plaster walls as frescoes by the Old Masters. In short, I think teens and pre-teens like Twain because he can challenge manners in a deliciously adolescent way. But I know of no research on the subject. Gregg Camfield