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On sale Mar 11, 2008 | 8 Hours and 58 Minutes | 978-0-7393-6414-7
Eleven-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit. He’s best known in his hometown as the boy who made a memorable impression on Frederick Douglass. But things change when a former slave steals money from Elijah’s friend, who has been saving to buy his family out of captivity in the South. Elijah embarks on a dangerous journey to America in pursuit of the thief, and he discovers firsthand the unimaginable horrors of the life his parents fled–a life from which he’ll always be free, if he can find the courage to get back home.
  • WINNER
    AudioFile Earphones Award
  • WINNER | 2009
    ALSC Notable Children's Recordings
  • WINNER | 2008
    Coretta Scott King Book Award
  • WINNER | 2008
    Newbery Honor Books
  • SELECTION | 2009
    ALSC Notable Children's Recordings
  • SELECTION | 2009
    Booklist Editors' Choice: Audiobooks - Young Listeners
  • SELECTION | 2009
    Capitol Choices Noteworthy Audiobook
  • SELECTION | 2009
    YALSA Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults
  • HONOR | 2009
    Odyssey Honor
  • SELECTION | 2008
    ALA Notable Children's Book
  • SELECTION | 2008
    AudioFile Best Audiobook
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Christopher Paul Curtis won the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award for his bestselling second novel, Bud, Not Buddy. His first novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, was also singled out for many awards, and has been a bestseller in hardcover and paperback. His most recent novels for Random House include The Mighty Miss Malone, Mr. Chickee's Messy Mission, Mr. Chickee's Funny Money, and Bucking the Sarge.
Christopher Paul Curtis grew up in Flint, Michigan. After high school he began working on the assembly line at the Fisher Body Plant No. 1 while attending the Flint branch of the University of Michigan. He is now a full-time writer, and lives with his family in Windsor, Ontario. View titles by Christopher Paul Curtis

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Eleven-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit. He’s best known in his hometown as the boy who made a memorable impression on Frederick Douglass. But things change when a former slave steals money from Elijah’s friend, who has been saving to buy his family out of captivity in the South. Elijah embarks on a dangerous journey to America in pursuit of the thief, and he discovers firsthand the unimaginable horrors of the life his parents fled–a life from which he’ll always be free, if he can find the courage to get back home.

Awards

  • WINNER
    AudioFile Earphones Award
  • WINNER | 2009
    ALSC Notable Children's Recordings
  • WINNER | 2008
    Coretta Scott King Book Award
  • WINNER | 2008
    Newbery Honor Books
  • SELECTION | 2009
    ALSC Notable Children's Recordings
  • SELECTION | 2009
    Booklist Editors' Choice: Audiobooks - Young Listeners
  • SELECTION | 2009
    Capitol Choices Noteworthy Audiobook
  • SELECTION | 2009
    YALSA Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults
  • HONOR | 2009
    Odyssey Honor
  • SELECTION | 2008
    ALA Notable Children's Book
  • SELECTION | 2008
    AudioFile Best Audiobook

Author

© DSH Photography
Christopher Paul Curtis won the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award for his bestselling second novel, Bud, Not Buddy. His first novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, was also singled out for many awards, and has been a bestseller in hardcover and paperback. His most recent novels for Random House include The Mighty Miss Malone, Mr. Chickee's Messy Mission, Mr. Chickee's Funny Money, and Bucking the Sarge.
Christopher Paul Curtis grew up in Flint, Michigan. After high school he began working on the assembly line at the Fisher Body Plant No. 1 while attending the Flint branch of the University of Michigan. He is now a full-time writer, and lives with his family in Windsor, Ontario. View titles by Christopher Paul Curtis

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