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Freedom song : the story of Henry "Box" Brown / by Sally M. Walker ; iIllustrated by Sean Qualls.

Walker, Sally M. (Author). Qualls, Sean, (Added Author).
  • ISBN: 9780060583101 (trade bdg.)
  • ISBN: 006058310X (trade bdg.)
  • ISBN: 9780060583118 (lib. bdg.)
  • ISBN: 0060583118 (lib. bdg.)
  • Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 x 28 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Harper, c2012.

Available copies

  • 7 copies at NOBLE (All Libraries).

Current holds

0 current holds with 8 total copies.

Library Location Call Number Status Due Date
Beverly Main Children's Nonfiction Child PZ 7 .W153845 Fre 2012 (Text to phone) Available -
Gloucester Children's Early Books J/E/Walker (Picture Books) (Text to phone) Available -
Lynn Children's Nonfiction j326/Walker (Text to phone) Available -
Reading Children's Picture Book CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOK WAL (Text to phone) Available -
Salem Children's Picture Books j WALKER - PICTURE BOOK (Text to phone) Available -
Saugus Children's Picture Books JUV Picture Book Walker (Text to phone) Available -
Swampscott Children's Room Picture Books jP Walker (Text to phone) Available -
Wakefield Children's Picture Books Children's Picture Book Wa (Text to phone) Checked out 06/08/2013

Summary: Henry Brown copes with slavery by singing, but after his wife and children are sold away he is left with only his freedom song, which gives him strength when friends put him in a box and mail him to a free state.
Audience: Ages 4-8.

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Subject: Brown, Henry Box, b. 1816 > Juvenile fiction.
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Singing > Fiction.
Underground Railroad > Fiction.
Virginia > History > 1775-1865 > Fiction.

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