The Education of Mary: A Little Miss of Color: 1832

By Ann Rinaldi

Book Overview

In 1832, Prudence Crandall begins admitting black girls to her exclusive Connecticut school, scandalizing white society and eventually causing her arrest and the closing of her school. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786805323
• ISBN13: 9780786805327
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.8"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

The Education of Mary, A Little Miss of Color, 1832...

Canterbury, Connecticut 1832-Thirteen-year old Mary Harris is growing up in a time period of the beginnings of the underground railroad and the start of the friction between blacks and whites before the Civil War. When Mary's sister, Sarah, becomes the first African-American girl to be admitted to an exclusive Canterbury female seminary, controversy arrises which provokes Miss Carandall, the head of the seminary,to turn the Paine Mansion into an all female colored school. As the situation escalates and gains national publicity, Mary is fighting for a cause she beleives to be true. The turmoil on the outside of the seminary is nothing compared to the tension and dividing that is taking place within. Based on the true story of the first school for black girls in Connecticut, if you like good, raw historical fiction you'll love this book! Although somewhat slow in parts Ann Rinaldi improvises, depicting this brief period of history-the personalities, and the passion behind causes. I gave this book four stars because the topic was extremely interesting and entertaining, but not like some of Rinaldi's other edge-of-your- seat, page-turning, thrillers. The book was still incredibly well-written and thought provoking.

Deep

This book is deep.I don't know any other way to describe it. I almost cried while I was reading it, I wanted to scream with, anger, and most of all I felt sorry for Mary, to have a father that doesn't believe in controversy, and to be surronded people who don't understand her. Her father I think was just uhhhh, he was as blind as a mouse. And really to have your own father believe a rumor against his own daughters word! I agree with Mary I to would live with Charles and Mariah, then work at the mills to get money. Now Julia and Mary have experience the same pain but I thinkMary's was more excruciating, because to have you own father issuing the pain. I liked this book, and like I said it was deep.

ue

I thought that this book was an excellent novel. First, I love Ann Rinaldi's books so i guess i would need to say that i am a bit partial to her work. Secondly, all of Ann Rinaldi's work has been excellent so when i say that she displays the historical background well and in an enthralling way that is true of not only this but all her novels. One bit of advice...never read the back author's note first! happy reading!

a review

it was an excellent example of historical fiction

Finest

I really enjoyed this book, and think it is one of Rinaldi's finest.