# Henry Hikes to Fitchburg

**Author:** D.B. Johnson
**Grade range:** Grades K–5
**First published:** 2006
**Page count:** 37
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9780547531205`
**ISBN-10:** `0547531206`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/henry-hikes-to-fitchburg
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Inspired by a passage from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, the wonderfully appealing Henry Hikes to Fitchburg follows two friends who have very different approaches to life. When the two agree to meet one evening in Fitchburg, which is thirty miles away, each decides to get there in his own way, and the two have surprisingly different days.

## Where this book is assigned

### Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

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- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners, via Wikipedia — 2000 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe%E2%80%93Horn_Book_Award)

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