Recommended for Youth
Titles for Readers of all ages
Unspoken by Henry Cole
(Preschool - Grade 3)
A young girl's courage is tested in this haunting, wordless story. Discovering a runaway slave hiding in the barn, a young farm girl is startled and frightened. She finds the stranger's fearful eyes weighing upon her conscience, and faces a difficult choice.
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
(Grade 3 - Grade 8)
Elijah, born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, encounters a former slave who steals money Elijah's friend has been saving to buy his own family out of captivity in the south. Elijah travels with his friend to America in pursuit of the thief and discovers the horrors his parents fled.
(Preschool - Grade 3)
A young girl's courage is tested in this haunting, wordless story. Discovering a runaway slave hiding in the barn, a young farm girl is startled and frightened. She finds the stranger's fearful eyes weighing upon her conscience, and faces a difficult choice.
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
(Grade 3 - Grade 8)
Elijah, born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, encounters a former slave who steals money Elijah's friend has been saving to buy his own family out of captivity in the south. Elijah travels with his friend to America in pursuit of the thief and discovers the horrors his parents fled.
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