Henry's Freedom Box

A True Story from the Underground Railroad

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Author:

Levine, Ellen

Narrated by:

Dixon, Jerry

ISBN:

978-1-4676-3708-4

Publication Date:

Jan 2012

Publisher:

Weston Woods Studios, Incorporated

Book Format:

Downloadable audio file

List Price:

USD $7.20

Book Description:

Henry dreams of a world where his life belongs to him. But when his family is sold, he risks everything for what he knows is right. With the strength and conviction of the best kind of hero, Henry makes a harrowing journey in a wooden crate -- and mails himself to freedom!

Author Biography

Levine, Ellen (Author)

Ellen Levine was born in New York City on March 9, 1939. She received a master's degree in political science from the University of Chicago and a law degree from New York University School of Law. She was an attorney for a public-interest law group, a documentary filmmaker, and taught courses in writing for children and young adults in Vermont College's MFA program.

She wrote numerous books for children and young adults during her lifetime including Darkness Over Denmark, I Hate English, Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Stories, Rachel Carson: A Twentieth-Century Life, and Henry's Freedom Box. She died from lung cancer on May 26, 2012 at the age of 73.

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