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Henry's freedom box / by Ellen Levine ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2007Description: 40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780439777339 (hc.)
  • 043977733X (hc.)
  • 9781428721920 (Follett bdg.)
  • 1428721924 (Follett bdg.)
Other title:
  • Subtitle on cover: True story from the Underground Railroad
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • E LEV 22
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.L57833 Hen 2007
Awards:
  • Caldecott Medal/Honor, 2008.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Wilson's Children, October 2010.

Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2008.

School Library Journal, March 2007.

Book Links (A.L.A.), October 2009.

Booklist starred, February 2007.

Horn Book Starred, October 2007.

Publisher's Weekly, January 2007.

Kirkus Starred, December 2006.

Horn Book, March 2007.

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.

2.6

K-3

Caldecott Medal/Honor, 2008.

AD490L Lexile

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