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Gr 1–3—Brown is famous as a slave who had himself packed into a wooden box and shipped from Virginia to freedom in Pennsylvania. His story has been told by Virginia Hamilton in Many Thousand Gone (Knopf, 1993) and in Ellen Levine's Henry's Freedom Box (Scholastic, 2007). After discovering that Brown sang in his church choir, Walker took a different approach and built her story around the ma...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Walker's rhythmic text imagines young Henry's moods expressed as songs. The story follows his life as a slave, h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More