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Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom

by Carole Boston Weatherford

Picture book · ages 8–12 · grades 3–7 · 620L · 56 pages · 2020

Why we'd hand it over

Weatherford's verse and Shadra Strickland's starkly beautiful collage transforms a true escape narrative into unforgettable meditation on embodied courage—the fear is real, the triumph is earned, and kids remember it.

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Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford (ages 8–12) — ChapterScout