Heather Camlot

Heather Camlot's excellent Secret Schools takes the reader to times and places around the world where teachers and students risked death in order to learn. Wide-ranging, balanced and accessible, this book gives digestible snippets of what it was like to be banned from learning because of one's sex, nationality or religion. Each example is short, finely crafted and well-researched. Each includes illustrations. This book is a great choice for reluctant readers, but will also spur avid readers on to their own further reading and research.… (more)