02968cam a2200361 4500 275632438 TxAuBib 20120616120000.0 041108s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2004026554 9780618473021 hardcover 0618473025 hardcover DLC eng DLC BAKER ASC ZPP UWC XY4 EHH XFF NPL YDXCP BTCTA XY4 STF GACCL IG# FMO CQU TEX DEBBG UBY TUU BDX IXA TxAuBib Jurmain, Suzanne. The forbidden schoolhouse : the true and dramatic story of Prudence Crandall and her students / Suzanne Jurmain. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005. 150 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [138]-144) and index. 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. 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. Mysteriously, 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. Exciting and eye-opening, 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. 920 : Lexile. 20120616. 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). Crandall, Prudence 1803-1890 Juvenile literature. Crandall, Prudence 1803-1890. Crandall, Prudence. Women educators Connecticut Biography Juvenile literature. Women educators Biography. African American women Education Connecticut History Juvenile literature. African American women Biography. Juvenile materials. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0617/2004026554-d.html Publisher description