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Genre/Form: | Fiction History Juvenile works Historical fiction Juvenile fiction |
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Material Type: | Elementary and junior high school, Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Christopher Paul Curtis |
ISBN: | 0439023459 9780439023450 |
OCLC Number: | 778945620 |
Awards: | Newbery Medal/Honor, 2008. Coretta Scott King Award, 2008. |
Target Audience: | 5.6.; 3-6 |
Description: | 341 pages ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | Christopher Paul Curtis. |
Abstract:
Eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada--a haven for slaves fleeing the American South in 1859--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.
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