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Elijah of Buxton

In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.

Main Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Scholastic Press, 2007.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Freedom > Juvenile fiction.
Liberty > Juvenile fiction.
Slavery > Juvenile fiction.
Newbery honor book.
Canada > Juvenile fiction.
Summary: In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Physical Description: 341 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780439023443 (trade bdg.)
0439023440 (trade bdg.)
0439023459 (alk. paper)
9780439023450 (alk. paper)
Author Notes: Newbery Medal-winning children's book author Christopher Paul Curtis was born in Flint, Michigan on May 10, 1953 and graduated from The University of Michigan. While there he won the Avery and Jules Hopwood Prizes for poetry and a draft of one of his early books. Curtis spent thirteen years on an assembly line hanging car doors.

His story The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 received a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor, and Bud, Not Buddy became the first novel to win both of these awards. Elijah of Buxton received the 2008 Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, and a Newbery Honor. Curtis also won the 2009 Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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