The powerful read-aloud, “Henry’s Freedom Box” by Ellen Levine, is the true story of Henry “Box” Brown, one of the Underground Railroad’s most famous runaway slaves, who mailed himself to Philadelphia in a wooden crate. Your copy of this beautifully illustrated non-fiction story, paired with our text-dependent questions and follow-up reproducible close reading study sheet, will help you teach close reading and the Common Core standards for Informational Text 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. We’ve done