The Forbidden Schoolhouse

ISBN-10: 1328740846
ISBN-13: 9781328740847
Author: Jurmain, Suzanne
Interest Level: 6-8
Publisher: HarperCollins

Publication Date: January 2018

Copyright: 2005

Page Count: 160

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Interest Level

Grades 6-8

Reading Level

Lexile: 920L
Accelerated Reader Level: 6.9
Accelerated Reader Points: 3.0

Genre

BIOGRAPHY

BISAC Subjects

JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American

JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists

JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / 19th Century

Description
This book chronicles the life and struggles of Prudence Crandall who, in the 1830s, closed her all-white boarding school for girls in Connecticut and began admitting African American students, and describes the intense opposition from the townspeople.