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Jurmain, Suzanne.

The forbidden schoolhouse : the true and dramatic story of Prudence Crandall and her students. / Suzanne Jurmain.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

150 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

They threw rocks and rotten eggs at the school windows. Villagers refused to sell Miss Crandall groceries or let her students attend the town church. Her schoolhouse was set on fire -- by whom and how remains a mystery. The town authorities dragged her to jail and put her on trial for breaking the law. Her crime? Trying to teach African American girls geography, history, reading, philosophy, and chemistry. Trying to open and maintain one of the first African American schools in America. In 1831, thirty years before the Civil War. This account of the heroine of Canterbury, Connecticut, and her elegant white schoolhouse at the center of town will give readers a glimpse of what it is like to try to change the world when few agree with you.

Middle School.

Ages 10-12

920 Lexile.

Crandall, Prudence, 1803-1890 -- Juvenile literature.

Women educators -- Connecticut -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

African American teachers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

African American women -- Education -- Connecticut -- History -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.

United States -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.

Biographies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-144) and index.

Accelerated Reader 6.9.

Reading Counts! 6.2.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.9 3.0 102931.

6-8 7.0 Reading Counts RC 6.2 38361.

Booklist Starred Review (2005); American Library Association Young Adult Library Services Association--YALSA--Best Books for Young Adults (2006); Americna Library Association-YA (2006); American Library Association Notables (2006); Obis Pictus Honor for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children (2006).

NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children Honor Book, 2006

Little more learning -- School may sink -- Six scholars -- Moses had a black wife -- Will not you ... be my attorney? -- Man of Canterbury ... Hear me! -- Miss Crandall has commenced her school -- Unjust ... and disgraceful -- Savage barbarity -- Under attack -- Miss Crandall on trial -- More Trouble -- Fire! -- Choicest blessing -- For sale -- Deep convictions of right -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Publisher description

2004026554

0618473025

9780618473021

9781328740847

1328740846

0618473025 (hardcover)

56941929

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