Adventures of Mary Jane - diskuze

In this brand new reimagining, Mary Jane&mdash,the red-headed spark from Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, who stole Huck's heart in just 30 pages&mdash,comes to life with her own story of adventuring down the Mississippi River in the 1840s. Meet Mary Jane Guild &mdash, she&rsquo,s on a dangerous and unpredictable adventure down the Mississippi River &mdash, and she&rsquo,ll steal Huck Finn&rsquo,s heart along the way. In his classic work Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain briefly introduces Mary Jane, the red-headed one. In no time Mary Jane becomes the girl Huck thinks about a many and a many million times. Now author Hope Jahren has created for Mary Jane a life as vivid and compelling as Huck's. These pages will show you the real Mary Jane. A girl on her own dangerous, unpredictable journey down the Mississippi River in pre-Civil War America. Equipped with an uncanny ability for mathematics, a talent for sewing, and a bale of beaver skins, Mary Jane navigates deadly illnesses, angry mobs, treacherous landowners, outright thieves and swindlers, and more than a thousand miles of muddy water. ,What&rsquo,s more, she thrives in the face of these challenges, thanks to support from strangers who become friends. Traveling solo requires Mary Jane to grow up fast, but it ultimately leads her to a new resilience, a love of adventure, deep and enduring sisterhood, and a blue-eyed, ponytailed boy she can&rsquo,t stop thinking about. Jahren offers a wealth of lay
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