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Presents Truman Capote's short story "A Christmas Memory" in which a seven-year-old boy recalls touching memories of an elderly maiden cousin at Christmas time.

Presents the original text of the Mark Twain story that relates the escapades of Tom Sawyer and his friends in a small, 19th-century town on the Mississippi River, and provides side notes, illustrations, and annotations that contain information on the history, geography, and social customs of the day.

A boy recalls his life with an elderly relative in rural Alabama in the 1930's and the lesson she taught him one Thanksgiving Day about dealing with a bully from school.

Thirteen-year-old Joel Knox is sent to live with his father in rural Alabama after the death of his mother, but instead is met by a sullen stepmother, eccentric cousin, and defiant girl named Idabel who offers Joel the love and approval he never received from his parents.

The hillbilly-turned-Manhattanite at the center of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" shares not only the author's philosophy of freedom but also his fears and anxieties.