Penrod

About

Tarkington's Penrod (1914) is the great American small-town boy novel of the early twentieth century — the Indiana equivalent of Tom Sawyer, following twelve-year-old Penrod Schofield through a year of neighborhood adventures, humiliations, animal friends, and wars with school and propriety. The humor is consistent and the portrait of middle-American childhood at the turn of the century is warmly observed. As group reading, individual chapters work as standalone comic pieces.