"Die Abenteuer Tom Sawyers" by Mark Twain is a novel published in 1876 about a mischievous boy growing up along the Mississippi River in the 1830s-1840s. Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where he skips school, falls for Becky Thatcher, and befriends vagrant Huckleberry Finn. Their childhood adventures take a dark turn when they witness a murder in a graveyard, setting off a chain of events involving buried treasure, dangerous criminals, and life-threatening perils.