Ruth Palmer
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"To escape from his violent and drunken father, a 13-year-old boy from the wrong side of the tracks, Huckleberry Finn, fakes his own death and floats away on a raft down the Mississippi with Jim, a runaway slave.In a series of unforgettable adventures narrated by Huck, they encounter a cross-section of characters from slave-hunters, and con men to feuding aristocrats.This was the first major American novel to be written in the vernacular, a dark and...
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Mark Twain's first novel about Tom and Huck, one of the world's best-known and best-loved books, is published here with all the original True W. Williams illustrations. The adventures of a growing boy in the nineteenth century in a Mississippi River town, as he plays hookey on an island, witnesses a crime, hunts for pirates' treasure, and becomes lost in a cave.
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Our World of Books
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[2013]
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English
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"A joyful book that captures the essence of welcoming a new baby to the family. Highlights includes baby's first checkup, family gatherings at the hospital, baby's new room, changing diapers, feeding, playing peek-a-boo, reading to baby, making funny faces, going for walks in the stroller, and singing lullabies"--Amazon.
