Title: Elijah of Buxton
Description: Elijah has to go find this former slave that stole a friends money who was planning on buying his family back out of slavery. What happens along the way is terrifying to even think about, friends getting shot, dying, and freeing slaves.
Subjects: Newbery Honor, Blacks, Freedom, Slavery, Fiction, History, Juvenile fiction, Liberty, Enfants noirs, Black Canadian children, Historical fiction, Esclavage, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Voleurs, 1000blackgirlbooks, Children's fiction, Slavery, fiction, Blacks, fiction, Ontario, fiction, Courage, Thieves, Large type books, Black Children, Ficción juvenil, Niños afronorteamericanos, Ladrones, Esclavitud, Black people, Robbers and outlaws, fiction, Children, united states, fiction, award:Newbery_award, lexile:980, lexile_range:901-1000, age:min:9, age:max:12, grade:min:4, grade:max:7
Places: Canada, North Buxton (Ont.)
Time periods: 1763-1867, 19th century