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    Penrod and Sam (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

    By Booth Tarkington

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    Penrod Schofield, age eleven, and best friend Samuel Williams careen through a series of misadventures in this 1929 look back at boyhood before the Great War. Fishing a cat out of a well using a pair of trousers is just one of the outrages they perpetrate in this sequel to Penrod.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateMar 1, 2011
    ISBN9781411438088
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    Penrod and Sam (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
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    Booth Tarkington

    Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an acclaimed American novelist and playwright. Born in Indiana, Tarkington drew inspiration from his Midwestern roots, weaving narratives that captured the complexities of American society during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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