 | Henry's Freedom Box (Caldecott Honor Book) by Ellen Levine
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $7.95 An excellent story which also happens to be a true story of a slave who lost his birth family when he is given to another owner and then loses his wife and children when they are sold off. Henry has himself nailed into a wooden crate to be mailed to Pennsylvania, where he will be a free man. Sensitive and powerful images on all pages.
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 | The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.93 Patricia Polacco is perhaps the best author-illustrator ever. In this story (a true story of her aunt and great aunt in Nazi occupied France) a young girl discovers her mother has been sheltering a jewish family from extermination or imprisonment.
An excellent tale which has been an excellent unit for students fourth grade an up.
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