“You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.”
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We hadn’t had enough of Mark Twain after finishing Tom Sawyer, so we progressed to the sequel. Huck Finn is a much tougher book than its predecessor in a lot of ways. There are many reasons people have fiercely advocated that it be banned in public schools and libraries. In our house it has driven a lot of conversations about the complex history of our country, and the kind of people we’d like to become.