Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn
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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Diane Mowat.

Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure.

So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends.

And there's 300 dollars waiting for anyone who catches poor Jim…

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HUCKLEBERRY FINN

‘I never had a home,’ writes Huck, ‘or went to school like all the other boys. I slept in the streets or in the woods, and I could do what I wanted, when I wanted. It was a fine life.’

So when Huck goes to live with the Widow Douglas, he doesn’t like it at all. He has to be clean and tidy, be good all the time, and go to school. Then his father comes and takes him away to live in the woods. At first Huck is pleased, but his father is always hitting him so Huck decides to run away.

When he meets Jim, a runaway slave, they decide to travel together down the great Mississippi River on a raft. They run into all kinds of trouble and danger, of course, but Huck is happy. Life on the river is so free and easy and comfortable …

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Word count (main text): 6180 words
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