The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a series of adventures. This book follows the first book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, who happens to be Huck's best bud. It is mostly about Jim, an escaped slave, and Huck, the runaway boy, and their adventures together. Sometimes they run into unexpected trouble or company along the way (running into scallywags, old friends, kings and dukes!). It is a bit of a struggle to read, and it uses rude words that were okay to say when it was written, in 1850, but not today, to describe people's races. It is also hard to understand the slaves because they have heavy accents and are uneducated. I think it's worth reading, though, since it's a classic. Even if you don't like it, you are exposed to how things were in the 1850's.
~ Writer Geek
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