Elijah of Buxton
By: Christopher Paul Curtis.
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780439936477
Subjects: Freedom -- Fiction; Slavery -- Fiction; Blacks -- Canada -- Fiction; North Buxton (Ont.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction; Canada -- History -- 1763-1867 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Notes: Newbery Honor Book, 2008.