Title: Elijah Of Buxton
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Pages: 341
Genre: Historical Fiction
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Pages: 341
Genre: Historical Fiction
Two unknown men are coming to town, probably to steal people for slavery. The preacher rides on his horse outside the town, to take a look for the two men. After some days people started to get scared about the preacher not coming back. Rumors went everywhere. Finally when the preacher did come back he had a new pistol with and new rumors started to get created. Some said that he killed them, but Elijah wasn't so sure about that because why would he only have one pistol when there were two guys.
Elijah and Cooter is not happy about Mr. Travis and what he teach them about. Mr. Travis planned on teaching them about "Familiarity breeds contempt." Cooter believes that it is about "breeding" and somebody should take a look at Mr. Travis. In the middle of class Cooter started smiling and Mr. Travis didn't tolerate that and he think that Cooter didn't give him the right respect.
"The way I figure, if Preacher had took those guns from those men, how come he only said he found one pistol?"
"The way I figure, if Preacher had took those guns from those men, how come he only said he found one pistol?"
It sounds like an interesting book :D Maybe you should add a picture of the book. I really liked how you described the part with the pistols and how people including Elijah wondered.
ReplyDeleteI read this book in 5th grade. It is a good book and shows how african americans lived during that time.
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