# Henry's Freedom Box

**Author:** Ellen Levine
**Grade range:** Grades 3–6
**Age range:** 8–11
**First published:** 2007
**Page count:** 40
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780439777339`
**ISBN-10:** `043977733X`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/henrys-freedom-box
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.

## Themes

- slavery, fiction
- african americans, fiction
- underground railroad, fiction
- slavery

## Where this book is assigned

### Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania)

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2009-2010 winner (3-6)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2009-2010 winner (3-6)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2009-2010 winner (3-6)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2009-2010 winner (3-6)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)

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