Publisher's Synopsis

'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?

BACKSTORY: Discover how to write secret messages in code, and learn about the extraordinary Mark Twain.

Book information

ISBN: 9780099572978
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage Children's Classics
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.4
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 489
Weight: 342g
Height: 150mm
Width: 187mm
Spine width: 33mm