Title: The actual & truthful adventures of Becky Thatcher
Description: In 1860, eleven-year-old Becky Thatcher, new to St. Petersburg, Missouri, joins the boys at school in a bet to steal from the Widow Douglas in hopes of meeting a promise to have adventures that she made her brother, Jon, before he died.
Subjects: Families, Adventure stories, Adventure and adventurers, Juvenile fiction, Family life, Fiction, Behavior, Conduct of life, Becky Thatcher (Fictitious character), History, Children's fiction, Behavior, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Missouri, fiction, Family, fiction, Family life, fiction, Mississippi river, fiction
Places: Mississippi River, Missouri
Time periods: 19th century