Title Miss Crandall's school for young ladies and little misses of color : poems / by Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson ; pictures by Floyd Cooper.

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Honesdale, Pa. : Wordsong, 2007.

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Edition	First edition.
Description	47 pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 28 cm
Summary	Poets Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson tell the story of Prudence Crandall's school for African American girls opened in 1833.
Contents	Introduction -- The students -- 1 -- The book -- Knowledge -- Family -- Goodbye -- 2 -- Study -- Fire from the Gods -- We -- Ali-night melodies -- 3 -- Lawyers -- The Tao of the trial -- Miss Ann Eliza Hammond -- Allegiance -- 4 -- Etymology -- Water -- Unmentionables -- Hunger -- 5 -- Albert Hinckley -- Call and response -- Worth -- Cat -- 6 -- Open secret -- Arson at midnight -- End -- Julia Williams -- Author's notes.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.9 0.5 116747.
Subject	Crandall, Prudence, 1803-1890 -- Juvenile poetry.
	Women educators -- Connecticut -- Juvenile poetry.
	Girls' schools -- Connecticut -- Juvenile poetry.
	African American students -- Juvenile poetry.
	African American girls -- Juvenile poetry.
	Discrimination in education -- Connecticut -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile poetry.
	Canterbury (Conn.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile poetry.
	Children's poetry, American.
	Crandall, Prudence, 1803-1890 -- Poetry.
	Women educators -- Connecticut -- Poetry.
	Girls' schools -- Connecticut -- Poetry.
	African American students -- Poetry.
	African American girls -- Poetry.
	Discrimination in education -- Connecticut -- History -- 19th century -- Poetry.
	Canterbury (Conn.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Poetry.
	American poetry.
Added Author	Nelson, Marilyn, 1946-
	Cooper, Floyd, illustrator.
ISBN	9781590784563 trade bdg.
	1590784561 trade bdg.
	9781428764767 BWI bdg.
	1428764763 BWI bdg.

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