Elijah of Buxton
By: by Christopher Paul Curtis.
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Waterville, Me
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781410405807
Subjects: Large type books; Freedom -- Fiction; Slavery -- Fiction; Blacks -- Canada -- Fiction; Large type books; 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.