Mark Twain's books, telling about the adventures of Tom Sawyer and his friends, open up for the reader a world of real courage, true friendship and love of life, which is endowed with extraordinary natures. In The Detective Exploits of Tom Sawyer, Tom and his friend Huck solve a terrible crime committed on the banks of the Mississippi River. However, the feelings and actions in the fictional literary world are the most real - boyish valor and courage, intelligence, resourcefulness and friendship. And in the story “Tom Sawyer Abroad,” the writer sends his characters on a hot air balloon journey through the Sahara Desert. There, friends will have to get into a sandstorm and even meet a pack of lions... Little heroes, indulging in the simple joys of childhood, create on an equal basis with adults: “a street boy, superior to his friend in games, derives just as much joy from his talent and just as diligently develops it , as a sculptor, painter, musician, mathematician and all the rest,” wrote Mark Twain. In this by no means frivolous game, the best human qualities of future adults are laid.