The forbidden schoolhouse : the true and dramatic story of Prudence Crandall and her students.
(Book)

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

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.

Accelerated Reader,MG,6.9,3,102931

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).