Prudence Crandall

Teacher for Equal Rights

Interest Level: Grade 2 - Grade 4
Reading Level: Grade 3

When Prudence Crandall opened a school for young girls in 1831, she didn’t expect trouble. But that is just what she got when she allowed African American girls to attend. A Quaker and abolitionist, Prudence defied the prejudiced attitudes and violent actions of those around her and fought to keep her school open when few others would have dared.

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Interest Level	Grade 2 - Grade 4
Reading Level	Grade 3
Category	5 Kinds of Nonfiction, 5KN: Narrative Nonfiction
Publisher	Lerner Publishing Group
Brand	On My Own Books
Imprint	Millbrook Press ™
Language	English
Publication Date	2001-08-01

Text Type	Narrative Nonfiction
BISACS	JNF007110, JNF007020, JNF007120
Dewey	371.1'0092
Graphics	1-color illustrations, Full-color illustrations
Guided Reading Level	O
ATOS Reading Level	4.3
Accelerated Reader® Quiz	58556
Accelerated Reader® Points	0.5
Features	Reviewed, Teaching Guides, and Timeline

Author: Eileen Lucas

Eileen (O’Donnell) Lucas grew up in Chicago, spent a semester in college in Ireland, and graduated from Western Illinois University. She lived near Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, for over 20 years, where her sons Travis and Brendan were born. She worked as a freelance writer and an elementary and middle school teacher during these years. She now lives in Florida, where she loves to go to the beach and listen to Jimmy Buffett music. She also loves to visit her trailer in the woods in central Wisconsin, where she takes care of her garden and hikes in the pines. Besides nonfiction children’s books, she writes for an educational software publishing company in Wisconsin.

Illustrator: Kimanne Smith

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School Library Journal

“The large-print, easy-to-read text and many full-color paintings and a black-and-white portrait of Crandall will appeal to beginning readers.”

—School Library Journal

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