“Elijah of Buxton,” by Christopher Paul Curtis is a Newberry Honor Award novel about a young boy living in a historic Canadian community for runaway slaves.Eleven-year-old Elijah was the first child born in Buxton, Canada, a small settlement formed by runaway slaves who escaped over the border. Elijah is viewed by some as a symbol of the newfound freedom available in Buxton. At the same time, though, Elijah feels a little letdown about the fact that one of the community's favorite anecdotes is about Elijah as a baby throwing up on Fredrick Douglass, the famous escaped slave and Abolitionist orator.
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4 replies so far. What are your thoughts?
This seems like a good book and i've only got 28
pages in to it but i am 11 years old and i defenitly recomend it.
i am a 12 year old and I am up to page 201 and i was wondering "WHERE IS THE MAIN PART????!!!!"
now since i know that it starts at page 222 i won't be complaining as much
I just finished reading this book, and it was great! Everything flows together so nicely. You've got to read it!
i didn't get to the plot until later in the book. But overall it was good.
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