Project Gutenberg 2020-12-29 Public domain in the USA. 121 Castlemon, Harry 1842 1915 Fosdick, Charles Austin Castlemon, Henry Tom Newcombe; Or, the Boy of Bad Habits The go-ahead series David Edwards, Susan Carr and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) "Tom Newcombe; Or, the Boy of Bad Habits" by Harry Castlemon is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story revolves around Tom Newcombe, a fourteen-year-old boy from a wealthy family who struggles with numerous bad habits and a discontented attitude despite having every material comfort available to him. As he contemplates his future, Tom frequently shifts his ambitions between various careers, most prominently a life at sea, indicating a deep-seated yearning for adventure overlayed with his aversion to the hard work that accompanies it. The opening of the book introduces us to Tom, lounging in his yard and lamenting his lack of good fortune, which he largely attributes to his inability to focus or apply himself. Although his father, a successful ship owner, has provided him with every conceivable luxury, Tom's careless habits make him increasingly unhappy and lead to struggles with academia. Despite his grand dreams of becoming a sailor, his father's insistence on education stands as a barrier. After persistent pleading, Tom eventually secures grudging permission to go to sea on one of his father's ships. However, he quickly discovers that the reality of ship life is markedly different from his romantic notions, fraught with hard labor and bullying from the crew, setting the stage for a lesson in humility and responsibility. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 76.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Adventure stories Teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction Seafaring life -- Juvenile fiction Sailors -- Juvenile fiction Farmers -- Juvenile fiction Diligence -- Juvenile fiction Soldiers -- Juvenile fiction Child labor -- Juvenile fiction Pride and vanity -- Juvenile fiction Military education -- Juvenile fiction Newport (R.I.) -- Juvenile fiction Runaway teenagers -- Juvenile fiction Orderliness -- Juvenile fiction Punishment -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Adventure Category: Novels Category: American Literature 639719 2025-07-25T10:45:07.780566 text/html 617442 2024-10-18T09:25:06 text/html 1035280 2025-07-25T10:45:17.110491 application/epub+zip 1032330 2025-07-25T10:45:09.589526 application/epub+zip 330288 2025-07-25T10:45:08.640583 application/epub+zip 1188856 2025-07-25T10:45:22.857500 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 944114 2025-07-25T10:45:16.201500 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 442533 2022-09-28T21:42:52.074150 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 579847 2025-07-25T10:45:06.472606 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 559884 2024-10-18T09:25:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20572 2025-07-25T10:45:23.014457 application/rdf+xml 20452 2025-07-25T10:45:08.777540 image/jpeg 2887 2025-07-25T10:45:08.708549 image/jpeg 1567104 2025-07-25T10:45:07.894540 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia