Freedom song : the story of Henry "Box" Brown
(2012)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
E/BIOGRAPHY/306.362/BROWN,H/WAL

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Biographies E/BIOGRAPHY/306.362/BROWN,H/WAL Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Harper, [2012]
©2012
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 28 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780060583101 (trade bdg.), 006058310X (trade bdg.), 9780060583118 (lib. bdg.), 0060583118 (lib. bdg.), 006058310X :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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

Ages 4-8

AD570L

Decoding demand: 62 (high) Semantic demand: 83 (very high) Syntactic demand: 75 (high) Structure demand: 85 (very high)

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