Mark Twain 
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 

 »It »s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them »
Huck Finn spits, swears, smokes a pipe and never goes to school. With his too-big clothes and battered straw hat, Huck is in need of  »civilising », and the Widow Douglas is determined to take him in hand. And wouldn »t you know, Huck »s no-good Pap is also after him and he locks Huck up in his cabin in the woods. But Huck won »t stand too much of this, and after a daring escape, he takes off down the Mississppi on a raft with an runaway slave called Jim. But plenty of dangers wait for them along the river – will they survive and win their freedom?
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