num_pages: 341
description: Newbery Medalist and CSK Award winner Christopher Paul Curtis's debut middle-grade/young-YA novel for Scholastic features his trademark humor, compelling storytelling, and unique narrative voice. Eleven-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit. He's best known in his hometown as the boy who made a memorable impression on Frederick Douglass. But things change when a former slave steals money from Elijah's friend, who has been saving to buy his family out of captivity in the South. Elijah embarks on a dangerous journey to America in pursuit of the thief, and he discovers firsthand the unimaginable horrors of the life his parents fled -- a life from which he'll always be free, if he can find the courage to get back home.
language: English
title: Elijah of Buxton
titlecomplete: Elijah of Buxton
genres: Juvenile, Fiction, African American, Canada, Young Adult, Historical, Childrens, Chapter Books, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade
ratings_count: 13621
places: Ontario
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Scott O'Dell Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Odyssey Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Jane Addams Children's Book Award
category: Older Children, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: CLA Book of the Year for Children Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Coretta Scott King Book Award
category: Author, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Middle School/Junior High, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Canadian Children's Literature Award
category: English Language
publisher: Scholastic Press