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Elijah of Buxton
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Author Christopher Paul Curtis
Country United States
Language English
Genre Historical fiction
Published 2007, Scholastic
Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages 341
Awards Newbery Honor
ISBN 0-439-02344-0
OCLC 86090238
LC Class PZ7.C94137 El 2007
Followed by The Madman of Piney Woods 

Elijah of Buxton is a children's novel written by Christopher Paul Curtis and published in 2007. The book won critical praise and was a Newbery Honor book and the winner of the Coretta Scott King Award. It also was a children's book bestseller

Summary

Elijah of Buxton is about an eleven-year-old boy, Elijah Freeman, who lives in Buxton, Canada. It was started as the Elgin Settlement, a refugee camp for African-American slaves who escaped via the Underground Railroad to gain freedom in Canada. Elijah is the first free-born child in the settlement, and has never lived under slavery. He has only heard of it. He goes into the United States to help stop a man from his settlement from stealing money from his friend, and learns there that it is a privilege to be free.

Awards

It has won a number of awards including a 2008 Newbery Honor, the 2008 Coretta Scott King Award, the 2008 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and the 2008 Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award

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