Huck's Raft

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Huck's Raft
Author	Steven Mintz
Subject	History of childhood, United States history
Published	2004 (Harvard University Press)
Pages	445
ISBN	978-0-674-01998-0

Huck's Raft is a history of American childhood and youth, written by Steven Mintz. The 2006 H-Net review wrote that the book was the best single-volume history of its kind.

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