by Christopher Paul Curtis · Editorial Everest · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788444141015
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«Elías de Buxton» is the historical young-adult novel by Christopher Paul Curtis, published by Editorial Everest in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
Elías, born free in Buxton, a Canadian settlement of fugitive slaves, sees a theft take the money a friend had saved to buy his family's freedom. Elías then embarks on a dangerous journey after the thief, a journey that brings him closer to the reality of the slavery his parents escaped and to the need to find the courage to return home.
This is the 3rd edition, published in 2008 in the Punto de encuentro collection; the translation is by Alberto Jiménez Rioja and the original title is Elijah of Buxton.
Recommended for young people aged 12 and over and for readers of historical fiction interested in themes such as slavery, freedom and racism.
Christopher Paul Curtis is an American children's book author. His first novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, was published in 1995 and brought him immediate national recognition, receiving the Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award and the Newbery Honor Book Award, in addition to numerous other awards. In 2000, he became the first person to win both the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award—prizes received for his second novel Bud, Not Buddy—and the first African-American man to win the Newbery Medal. His novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 was made into a television film in 2013.
