The Actual & Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher

Name: The Actual & Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Jessica Lawson
ISBN: 9781629239415

Author: Jessica Lawson

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 5 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 07/29/2014

Categories: Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure Stories

Synopsis

Tom Sawyer's and Huckleberry Finn's adventures are legendary, but what about the story you haven't heard? In 1860, eleven-year-old Becky Thatcher is the new girl in town, determined to have adventures like she promised her brother Jon before he died. Before long, she joins the boys at school in a bet to steal from the Widow Douglas, and Becky convinces her new best friend, Amy Lawrence, to join her. But the theft doesn't go as planned, and Widow Douglas ends up being unfairly accused of grave robbing as a result. So Becky concocts a plan to clear the Widow's name. If she pulls it off, she might just get her Mama to notice her again. That is, if that tattletale Tom Sawyer will quit following her around.

About Jessica Lawson

Jessica Lawson is the author of The Actual & Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher, a book that Publishers Weekly called a delightfully clever debut in a starred review, and Nooks & Crannies, named a Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year. Her third book for children, Waiting for Augusta, is a Junior Library Guild Selection.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bailey on February 03, 2017

I kept my eyes down and picked at the scab on my knee, afraid to look up at her. Gently, she cupped my chin in her hand and tilted my head up to meet hers. "You leave that scab alone, you hear me? Keep picking and picking at something like that, making it bleed over and over, and your whole leg wil......more

Goodreads review by Pop on July 26, 2016

A Rollicking Tale; the Tom Sawyer Angle Is A Bonus So, there seem to be two ways to go with popular public domain book characters. You can try to recreate them and produce authentic continuations of their stories. Or, you can start with their general features and then improvise your way to new interp......more

Goodreads review by Isaiah on June 16, 2014

Ask me to list my top five authors, and any day of the week the names will generally change. Except for one. Mark Twain. Probably the most influential book I ever read as a kid was The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, followed by The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and then (because I believe in reading tho......more

Goodreads review by Becky on July 11, 2014

I was surprised by how much I LOVED The Actual & Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher. I think the timing was just right for me to love it. Becky Thatcher is new in town. Her father is a judge. Her mother is a mess. To be fair, her mother is grieving the loss of her son, Jon. Becky and her father m......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on August 31, 2015

Gave up on. Made it to page 86, thought about skimming ahead, then decided *meh* I just really don't care that much. Very disappointed. LOVED, loved, Nooks and Crannies so I thought that I would love this. Not so much. Will read another book by this author though and give her another chance.......more