Roughing It (Penguin Classics: American Library) by Mark Twain Patricia Wynne A CBC-NSTA Best STEM Book

A CBC-NSTA Best STEM Book of the Year

kick off your shoes and forage for seaweed

once again Mr Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex life of London so plentifully presents

The assorted set of evergreen notecards are blank on the inside with charming watercolor illustrations of a chickadee

vivid portrait of the harsh West Virginia mining town of his youth

Roughing It (Penguin Classics: American Library) by Mark Twain Patricia Wynne A CBC-NSTA Best STEM BookA marvelously vivid, many sided portrait of America's frontier days. Mark Twain's rambling took him all over the American West during teh 1860's. He prospected for gold and silver, speculated on timber and mining stocks, sailed to Hawaii, and worked for a succession of small newspapers. In Roughing It, his fictionalized account of these years, tall tales abound, as do sketches of unforgettable characters: desperadoes, vigilantes, newspapermen,