Title: Tom Playfair
Subtitle: or, Making a start.
First published: 1891
Description: This delightful story centers on 10-year-old Tom Playfair who is quite a handful for his well-meaning but soft-hearted aunt. Mr. Playfair, his widowed father, decides to ship his son off to St. Maure's boarding school--an all-boys academy run by Jesuits--to shape him up, as well as to help him make a good preparation for his upcoming First Communion. Tom is less than enthusiastic, but his adventures are just about to begin. Life at St. Maure's will not be dull as the reader will soon find out.
Subjects: Children's stories, American, boarding school, Catholic, Jesuit, schoolboys, first communion, baseball, Christian biography, juvenile literature, Christian biography
Places: America, Kansas, St. Maure's (fictional place), St. Mary's, Kansas
People: Mr. Middleton
Time periods: 1890s
LC classification: PZ7.F497 To 1891x