mark twains books are pretty boring-the prince and the pauper-switching clothes would not make them mistaken for each other -they would have had to be twins, and tom sawyer and huck fin-tom sawyer was all about getting others to do his work for him and i believe his good friend huck fin was black-probably in those days no one cared if he had a different colored friend -nowdays they prbably make a big deal out of it-i wouldnt as we were not taught the kind of things to kill a mocking bird is about.i think alot of the books we read in school really didnt do much for me-there is no such thing as historical fiction -only facts and when the bible or history first was recorded -its only a story with a persons spin on it and thats all-debbi