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Print Material

Author

Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- author.

Title Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Michele Wood.

Publication Info.

Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2020.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	813.6 W378b 2020	---	Axe Inventory 2024
PCMS Jumpstart Non-Fiction	B BROWN	---	Available
Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Picture Book	PICT Weatherford	---	Available

1 copy being processed for Axe Acquisitions Order.

Edition	First edition.
Description	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm.
	text rdacontent
	still image rdacontent
	unmediated rdamedia
	volume rdacarrier
Summary	Retells in verse form the story of Henry Brown, an enslaved man who escaped from Virginia by having himself enclosed in a wooden box and shipped to freedom in Philadelphia.
Study Program	AR RL 5.3 0.5 509048 PCMS.
Source	B&T 01.2022 PARS
Awards	Newberry Honor Book, 2021.
Subject	Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816- -- Juvenile fiction.
	Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816- -- Fiction.
	Slavery -- Fiction.
	African Americans -- Fiction.
	Underground Railroad -- Fiction.
	Virginia -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction.
Added Author	Wood, Michele, illustrator.
ISBN	9780763691561 (lib. bdg.)
	0763691569 (lib. bdg.)