Penrod (French: L'Oiseau bleu)is a collection of comic sketches by Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1914. The book follows the misadventures of Penrod Schofield, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in the pre-World War I Midwestern United States, in a similar vein to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.[1][2] In Penrod, Tarkington established characters who appeared in two further books, Penrod and Sam (1916) and Penrod Jashber (1929). The three books were published together in one volume, Penrod: His Complete Story, in 1931.
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《青少年成长文库系列（套装共7册）》超值绘本，包括《捣蛋鬼日记》《绿野仙踪》《彼得潘》等。经典的童话的集合，全球儿童喜欢的畅销书，献给成长中的孩子及怀念童年的大人，值得一生回味的快乐阅读。
《男孩彭罗德的烦恼》
伴着对自由的向往，男孩彭罗德即将迎来他的12岁。他渴望飞翔、渴望自作主张，结果先是搞砸了学校的剧场演出，接着又不得不对老师扯下弥天大谎，骗同伴喝下成分复杂的自制药水后，他随即发动了一场沥青大战，最后又离奇地获得了一次破天荒的夸奖……可实际上，彭罗德也有迷茫和困惑，“全城最坏男孩”的头衔同样令他黯然神伤。
