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Friday, April 20, 2012

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. NY: Simon & Brown, 2010. 376 pages. (Realistic Fiction)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a book that takes place in Missouri in the late 1800’s and is about a boy named Huckleberry Finn (Huck for short) and a slave that he meets along the way named Jim they go on an amazing adventure down the Mississippi river on a raft where they pick up two strangers who say they are supposedly a king and a duke. The two strangers try to hustle them and anyone they see, but Jim and Huck can see they’re liars, but keep it to themselves. One of the strangers then sells Jim to a man while Huck is away in another town. Huck then goes on another adventure with a good friend of him named Tom Sawyer with a complex and well thought out plan to rescue Jim.


This is a great book that has many great adventures that anyone will like especially people who like books with a lot of adventure and a lot of realistic fiction. When you read this book you will feel like you are inside the book sitting right next to the characters, as the author gives a very vivid description of everything that is going on.

Reviewed by: zezima