Everything you need to understand or teach Penrod by Booth
Tarkington. In the tradition of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer or
Huckleberry Finn, Penrod offers an engaging story about a young
boy's daydreams, schemes, and desires. The experiences of
twelve-year-old Penrod Schofield present true-to-life challenges
that a young person of his time might conceivably face. While
not full of the life-threatening adventure of Twain's books,
Penrod is a humorous, thoughtful account of growing up in the
Midwest early in the twentieth century. Tarkington has preserved
the manners and morals, the talk and the popular pastimes, that
made up life for a young person during a particular era of
American history.(read more)