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

8 best books like The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students (Suzanne Tripp Jurmain): Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story, The Traitor's Wife, Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March, I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust, The Distancers: An American Memoir, Squirrelflight's Hope, Bachelor Unforgiving, How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People

Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story

Author	Andrea Warren
ISBN	0395698227

Between 1854 and 1930, more than 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children were sent west on orphan trains to find new homes. Some were adopted by loving families; others were not as fortunate. In recent years, some of the riders have begun to share their stories. Andrea Warren alternates chapters about...

The Traitor's Wife

Author	Allison Pataki
ISBN	1476738602

A riveting historical novel about Peggy Shippen Arnold, the cunning wife of Benedict Arnold and mastermind behind America's most infamous act of treason . . .
Everyone knows Benedict Arnold--the Revolutionary War general who betrayed America and fled to the British--as history's most notorious...

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March

Author	Lynda Blackmon Lowery
ISBN	0803741235

A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes

As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young adults can be heroes. Jailed nine times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside...

I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust

Author	Inge Auerbacher
ISBN	0140364013

"I am a star : child of the Holocaust" was written by Inge Auerbacher. The purpose they had for this book was to inform you. It was written not only to tell you what the Holocaust was about but also to inform you on just one persons story during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a very serious and horrible time....

The Distancers: An American Memoir

Author

Lee Sandlin

A sweeping, lush, and quintessentially American tale that is heartbreaking, hopeful, and cut from the very fabric of the heartland.A VINTAGE ORIGINAL.

In The Distancers, seven generations worth of joy and heartache is artfully forged into a family portrait that is at once universally American...

Squirrelflight's Hope

Author	Erin Hunter
ISBN	0062698834

An epic stand-alone adventure in Erin Hunter’s #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series! Also includes an exclusive ten-page Warriors manga adventure.

In this Super Edition, set just after the events of A Vision of Shadows, ThunderClan deputy Squirrelflight is caught between her...

Bachelor Unforgiving

Author

Brenda Jackson

Passionate payback  They say you can forgive but you can never forget. Virgil Bougard takes that saying to heart. Four years ago Kara Goshay believed a vicious lie about him and ended their relationship. And even after her apology, Virgil is still bitter. He doesn't intend to make things easy for...

How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People

Author	D.L. Hughley
ISBN	0062698567

3 hours, 45 minutes

A cutting satire of race relations in the age of Trump and Black Lives Matter from the hugely popular comedian—one of "The Original Kings of Comedy"—and author of the New York Times bestseller Black Man, White House.

"White people are always giving out ‘helpful’...