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The Big Box

by Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison · 1999

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Because they do not abide by the rules written by the adults around them, three children are judged unable to handle their freedom and forced to live in a box with three locks on the door.

Genre
fantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of this
Themes
African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of thisparentingparentingMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrenspicture books
Length
short · 48 pages
Form
poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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