The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students - Hardcover

Jurmain, Suzanne

 
9780618473021: The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0618473025 ISBN 13: 9780618473021
Verlag: HMH Books for Young Readers, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Suzanne Tripp Jurmain was born into a theatrical family, making her acting debut at age four and appearing in a number of television programs during her childhood and teen years. After earning an honors degree in English at UCLA, she worked at UCLA’s Fowler Museum before becoming a freelance writer. She has published several award-winning books for children on historical subjects, including The Secret of the Yellow Death, and the picture books Worst of Friends: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the True Story of an American Feud, George Did It, and Nice Work, Franklin!, all illustrated by Larry Day. Suzanne Jurmain lives with her husband in Los Angeles. Visit her website at www.suzannejurmain.com.
 

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Verlag
HMH Books for Young Readers
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0618473025
ISBN 13 
9780618473021
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
160
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