Summary:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn starts up where The Adventures of Tom Sawyer left off. Huck and Tom came across a robbers stash of gold, and both gained quite a bit of money, which the bank held in a trust fund. Huck is adopted by the Widow Douglas. His new life his filled with schooing, church, and propper manners. Things go bad when Huck's father comes back into town and demands the money. The Widow Douglas tries to adopt Huck through the court, but the new judge feels Huck would be better off with his father.

Huck's father lives in a cabin, and after being threaten by the Widow Douglas to stay off her property, he holds Huck captive and refuses to let him go. Huck is continually abused by his father, so he fakes his own death and escapes to an island in the middle of the Mississipps River. He hides out there for several days and hears the towns people looking for his body in the river. While there he meets one of Miss. Watson slaves named Jim. The two men team up together.

Jim and Huck stay on the island for a while, and have managed to find a raft. Huck learns that they must leave because one of the men in town told Miss. Watson that he saw smoke comming from the island and he thinks it is Jim. Huck and Jim leave the island and continue down the Mississippi River running into all kinds of trouble with robbers, bandits, and people on look out for them.

In a night of thick fog, Jim and Huck are separated and Huck ends up with the Grangerford family. They are Southern aristocrats who have an on-going feud with their neighbors the Shepherdsons. While there, Huck learns that the neighbors are Tom Sawyer's aunt and uncle and they have Jim. Tom reports that Jim is actually a free man because Miss. Watson had died recently and she said nothing of him in her will. Tom's aunt informs the boys that Huck's father has been killed and she offers to adopt Huck. He however, has other plans.