Newbery Honor book
Coretta Scott King Award winner
Scott O'Dell Award winner
CLA (Canadian Library Association) Book of the Year for Children Award
and others.

This may be my Canada read for the 2015 666 challenge...and will hopefully be released for gypsysmom's challenge.

Here's another copy on my BookCrossing shelf.

I counted another book set in Canada for the 666 challenge, but the story of Buxton is important in both Canadian and American history.

I liked Elijah better once he stopped talking so much about being "fra-gile"; I suspect I would have enjoyed this one more as an audiobook: for me dialect generally works much better when I'm listening to it than when it's on paper...but if I'd been listening to it alone in the car, I'm sure I would've wanted to tell him that going to the carnival wasn't a good idea..

I'm glad the story ends on a hopeful note, since it got pretty dark for a while there in the middle.

Although Elijah lives in Canada, a very significant part of his story takes place in Michgan, so I'll count this for NancyNova's 2015 MultiYear States Challenge.

24/51 read so far for this challenge:
AK | CA | CO | GA | HI | ID | LA | MD | MA | MI | MN | NH | NJ | NM | NY | NC | OH | OR | PA | SC | TN | VT | WA | WV

This book is scheduled for release some time between June 24 and July 5 for gypsysmom's 2015 Canada Days Release Challenge.

Added to the giveaway table at the annual post- OrigamiUSA convention Fold and Feed in Allentown.

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I'm so glad you've found this book!

Won't you please make a journal entry to let the book's previous readers know that it's safely in your hands? How did you find it? What did you think of it? What are you going to do with it next?

It's now your book, for you to do with as you please: keep it, pass it to a friend, or maybe even leave it where someone else can find it!

If you've ever wondered where your books go after they leave your hands, join BookCrossing and you may find out: you'll be able to follow the further adventures of your books as new readers make journal entries - sometimes from surprisingly far-flung locations.

(Think of it like Where's George for books...or a little like geocaching - you can follow the book's journey every time someone makes a new entry. Some BookCrossers even leave books *in* geocaches!)

BookCrossing: making the whole world a library!

Unclaimed at the end of the day, so I took it back.

Left in the food court for gypsysmom's 2015 Canada Days Release Challenge.

(Larger photo here.)

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I'm so glad you've found this book!

Won't you please make a journal entry to let the book's previous readers know that it's safely in your hands? How did you find it? What did you think of it? What are you going to do with it next?

It's now your book, for you to do with as you please: keep it, pass it to a friend, or maybe even leave it where someone else can find it!

If you've ever wondered where your books go after they leave your hands, join BookCrossing and you may find out: you'll be able to follow the further adventures of your books as new readers make journal entries - sometimes from surprisingly far-flung locations.

(Think of it like Where's George for books...or a little like geocaching - you can follow the book's journey every time someone makes a new entry. Some BookCrossers even leave books *in* geocaches!)

BookCrossing: making the whole world a library!