| Description |
150 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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age Children |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-144) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. (Publisher description). |
| Awards |
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). |
| Audience |
Middle School. |
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920 Lexile. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader 6.9. |
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Reading Counts! 6.2. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo. |
| Subject |
Crandall, Prudence, 1803-1890 -- Juvenile literature.
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Crandall, Prudence, 1803-1890. |
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Women educators -- Connecticut -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Women educators. |
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Connecticut. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
African American women -- Education -- Connecticut -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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African American women -- Education. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Juvenile works.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0618473025 (hardcover) |
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9780618473021 (hardcover) |
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