num_pages: 32
description: Inspired by a passage from Henry David Thoreau's WALDEN, this wonderfully appealing story follows two friends who have very different approaches to life. When the two agree to meet one evening in Fitchburg, which is thirty miles away, each decides to get there in his own way and have surprisingly different days.
language: English
title: Henry Hikes to Fitchburg
titlecomplete: Henry Hikes to Fitchburg (A Henry Book)
genres: Fiction, Nature, 2nd Grade, Philosophy, Historical, Childrens, Picture Books, Historical Fiction, Animals, Storytime
ratings_count: 719
series: Henry
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Massachusetts Book Award
category: Children's Picture Book, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Ezra Jack Keats Book Award
category: New Writer, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Picture Books for Older Readers
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company