A timeless novel in the spirited tradition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer andHuckleberry Finn One of the most popular American authors of the latenineteenth an... » 

A timeless novel in the spirited tradition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer andHuckleberry Finn One of the most popular American authors of the latenineteenth and early twentieth centuries Pulitzer Prize winner BoothTarkington was acclaimed for his novels set in small Midwestern towns. Penrodtells of a boy growing up in Indianapolis at the turn of the twentieth century.His friends and his dog accompany him on his many jaunts from the stage asathe Child Sir Lancelot a to the playground to school. They make names forthemselves as abad boysa who always have the most fun. Nearly a century afterit was first published to incredible popularity and acclaim Penrod remainswildly funny and entertaining to adults and children alike. «