Henry's freedom box / by Ellen Levine ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson.
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TextPublication details: New York : Scholastic Press, c2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cmISBN: - 043977733X (reinforced)
- 9780439777339 (reinforced)
- A Junior Library Guild selection.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Picturebook | Historical Events | Levine, Ellen | Checked out | 06/06/2024 | 33111004589822 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday -- his first day of freedom.
Includes bibliographical references (colophon).
A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.
A Junior Library Guild selection.