Benji and Red are boys young readers will want to run around in the woods with, play pranks on, and entrust with their deepest secrets. Set in Buxton, Ontario, a settlement of runaway slaves, forty years after the events of Elijah of Buxton, the story unfolds through Benji and Red’s alternating first-person narratives. The Madman of Piney Woods
by Christopher Paul Curtis (soft cover)