Possible Clues:

• Hip (the fruit) taken by European in American book
• Jim's raft mate
• Novel character making one laugh first off -- something fruity by Nordic citizen
• ''Juvenile pariah'' of fiction
• Stateside fruit at home between Sweden and Russia provides adventures for Tom
• Revolutionary French bury link with English inside adventure story
• “You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,’ but that ain’t no matter”
• American hero ordering free lunch by rink
• �The Adventures of -- --', Mark Twain
• Fictional creation of Mark Twain