AUTHOR: Christopher Paul Curtis
GENRE: Historical Fiction
THEME: Slavery, Courage, and Honor
AWARDS: Coretta Scott King Award
PUBLISHING DATE AND COMPANY:Scholastic Press, 2007
SUMMARY: This book is about the first child born into a town in Canada, his name is Elijah. He was born into a town that was mostly run away slaves. When growing up Elijah had a friend who had money stolen from them, and Elijah wants to help him get his family back. He then makes a crazy trip down into the United States to follow the robber, and finds out what his life would have been like had his parents not ran away from slavery. He has to try to not only follow the robber into the United States, but he then has to try to make it back to his home in Canada.
This would be a great book to use in both English for reading, and in a History class when learning about slavery.
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