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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