A simple daytrip turns to terror when Tom Sawyer, Huck Funn and Jim are kidnapped by the crazed inventor of an experimental airship, who flies off with his captives in a midnight storm, leaving the boys trapped miles in the air in mid-Atlantic.

In Robert Coover's Huck Out West, also "wrote by Huck," the boys escape "sivilization" and "light out for the Territory, riding for the famous but short-lived Pony Express, then working as scouts for both sides in the war. They are suddenly separated when Tom decides he'd rather own civilization than leave it, returning east with his new wife, Becky Thatcher, to learn the law from her father. Huck, abandoned and "dreadful lonely," hires himself out...

A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "Tom Sawyer" in which Tom cheats during the spelling bee, but later realizes he must make things right.

So, in two seconds, away we went, a-sliding down the river, and it did seem so good to be free again and all by ourselves on the big river and nobody to bother us.

Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huck Finn sneak onto Mark Twain's balloon. Twain is out to find Halley's Comet, but this encounter may be too close for everyone. As the journey progresses, Twain shares other tales from life on the Mississippi.