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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     School Library Journal Review     More Content       More by this author     Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-     Subjects     Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816- -- Poetry -- Juvenile literature.     Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.     Slavery -- Poetry -- Juvenile literature.     Underground Railroad -- Poetry -- Juvenile literature.     Blacks -- Juvenile literature.     Abolitionists, Black -- Juvenile literature.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-       by title:      Box : Henry Brown ma...       by call number:      306.362092 B878w     Search the Web     Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-     Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816- -- Poetry -- Juvenile literature.     Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.     Slavery -- Poetry -- Juvenile literature.     Underground Railroad -- Poetry -- Juvenile literature.     Blacks -- Juvenile literature.     Abolitionists, Black -- Juvenile literature.       MARC Display

Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Michele Wood. by Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- Candlewick Press, c2020. Call #: 306.362092 B878w Subjects Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816- -- Poetry -- Juvenile literature.   Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.   Slavery -- Poetry -- Juvenile literature.   Underground Railroad -- Poetry -- Juvenile literature.   Blacks -- Juvenile literature.   Abolitionists, Black -- Juvenile literature. ISBN:  9780763691561 0763691569 Alternate title:  Henry Brown mails himself to freedom Edition:  First edition. Description:  1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm. Notes:  A Junior Library Guild Selection Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be know as "Box," he "entered the world a slave." He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left, bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope - and help - came in the from of the Underground Railroad. Escape! The author, in poems, narrates Henry Brown's story of how he came to ship himself in a box from slavery to freedom. Awards:  Newbery Honor Book, 2021. Genre:  Biography, Juvenile. Other authors:  Wood, Michele. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library Children's Black Nonfiction 306.362092 B878w Childrens Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Children's Black Nonfiction 306.362092 B878w Childrens Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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