Elijah of Buxton
About this book
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.
Subjects
- 1000blackgirlbooks
- age:max:12
- age:min:9
- award:newbery_award
- black canadian children
- black children
- black people
- blacks
- blacks, fiction
- children's fiction
- children, united states, fiction
- courage
- enfants noirs
- esclavage
- esclavitud
- ficción juvenil
- fiction
- freedom
- grade:max:7
- grade:min:4
- historical fiction
- history
- juvenile fiction
- ladrones
- large type books
- lexile:980
- lexile_range:901-1000
- liberty
- newbery honor
- niños afronorteamericanos
- ontario, fiction
- robbers and outlaws, fiction
- romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- slavery
- slavery, fiction
- thieves
- voleurs