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Description
Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive.
Publication date
April 12, 2016
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781101997543
Lexile Measure
850
Publisher
Puffin Books
Series
Logan Family Saga
BISAC categories
JUV013030 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational JUV011010 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American JUV016000 - Juvenile Fiction | Historical | General JUV030060 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States
Mildred D. Taylor is the author of nine novels including The Road to Memphis, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, The Land, The Well, and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Her books have won numerous awards, among them a Newbery Medal (for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry), four Coretta Scott King Awards, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Her book The Land was awarded the L.A. Times Book Prize and the PEN Award for Children's Literature. In 2003, Ms. Taylor was named the First Laureate of the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature. Ms. Taylor now devotes her time to her family, writing, and what she terms the family ranch in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.