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Elijah of Buxton

  • Christopher Paul Curtis

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Elijah has to go find this former slave that stole a friends money who was planning on buying his family back out of slavery. What happens along the way is terrifying to even think about, friends getting shot, dying, and freeing slaves.

Genres

  • Newbery Honor
  • Blacks
  • Freedom
  • Slavery
  • Fiction
  • History
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Liberty
  • Enfants noirs
  • Black Canadian children
  • Historical fiction
  • Esclavage
  • Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
  • Voleurs
  • 1000blackgirlbooks
  • Children's fiction
  • Slavery, fiction
  • Blacks, fiction
  • Ontario, fiction
  • Courage
  • Thieves
  • Large type books
  • Black Children
  • Ficción juvenil
  • Niños afronorteamericanos
  • Ladrones
  • Esclavitud
  • Black people
  • Robbers and outlaws, fiction
  • Children, united states, fiction
  • award:Newbery_award
  • lexile:980
  • lexile_range:901-1000
  • age:min:9
  • age:max:12
  • grade:min:4
  • grade:max:7
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About the author

  • Christopher Paul Curtis

    born 1953

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    56 ratings · 25 works

Editions

  • Edition cover

    Everest Publishing

    2008

  • Edition cover

    Random House

    Jun 01, 2008

  • Edition cover

    Scholastic Canada

    2007

  • Edition cover

    Scholastic

    2009

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Scholastic

Aug 24, 2009

  • Edition cover

    Scholastic Press

    August 6, 2007

  • Edition cover

    Large print ed.

    Thorndike Press

    2008

  • Edition cover

    Unabridged edition

    Listening Library (Audio)

    March 25, 2008

  • Edition cover

    Scholastic Paperbacks

    September 1, 2012

  • Edition cover

    Scholastic INC, Scholastic Press

    September 1, 2012