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Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad

Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad

Levine, Ellen
Nelson, Kadir

Hardcover

General Juvenile FictionHistory

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 043977733X
ISBN13: 9780439777339
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: Jan 1 2007
Pages: 40
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.40 Width: 9.30 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Awards: Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award, Black-Eyed Susan Award, Buckaroo Book Award, Caldecott Medal, California Young Reader Medal, Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens, Colorado Children's Book Award, Delaware Diamonds Award, Golden Sower Award, Keystone to Reading Book Award, Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award, North Carolina Children's Book Award, Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award, Red Clover Award, South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award, Virginia Readers Choice Award, Volunteer State Book Awards, West Virginia Children's Book Award
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.

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