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Henry's Freedom Box
By Ellen Levine, Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
A slave risks all to mail himself to freedom.
4.5/5 Goodreads · 16,795 ratings
40 pages· 1,058 words· Est. 9 min read-aloud
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Bookroo's summary
Henry Brown, a slave with no record of his birth, dreams of freedom. Torn from his family and forced into labor, his hope dims until a daring plan forms. He decides to mail himself to the North in a wooden crate. Will this risky journey grant him the freedom he yearns for, or will it end in tragedy? Discover the courage and resilience of a man determined to claim his own life and finally celebrate his first true birthday.
From the publisher
A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist. Henry Brown doesn’t know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves’ birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday – his first day of freedom.
Awards
At a glance
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 40
- Words
- 1,058
- Reading age
- 4–8
- Audience
- Picture
- Lexile
- AD490L
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The fine print
Book details
Reading levels
- ATOS
- 3
- F&P level
- ~M
- AR points
- 0.5
- AR interest level
- LG
- AR quiz
- 113369
Publication
- Published
- January 1, 2007
- Publisher
- Scholastic Press
Edition
- Language
- English
- Type
- Picture Book
Identifiers
- ISBN
- 9780439777339
- LCCN
- 2006009487
- OCLC
- 65207060
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