This is a story set in 1950’s of a 10-year-old African American girl Wilma who lives with her family in Ohio. One day her father buys a golden Cadillac, and her mother is visibly upset because they were saving money to buy a house. The father wants to visit family in the South, so they set off fo...
Cassie Logan and her brothers have been warned never to go to the Wallace store, so they know to expect trouble there. What they don t expect is to hear Mr. Tom Bee, an elderly black man, daring to call the white storekeeper by his first name. The year is 1933, the place is Mississippi, and any c...
This was book #5 (book 6) of the Logan series written by Ms Taylor. She didn't write in the beginning of this one this is what she wrote in the first pages of "The Land" (book #1 of the series) and it applies to this book as well... "...Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I ...
This is a Coretta Scott Kind award winning book, (and in my opinion deserved it!) Please note like in the beginning of this book Ms Taylor writes: "...Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to use the language that was spoken ...
Having now read five Logan books by Mildred Taylor, I have two favorites: Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry and Road to Memphis. The first is about childhood; the second is about adolescence. While both contain a mixture of happy and tragic moments, Road to Memphis is about change and so is sadder in t...
This was book #4.5 (book #5) of the Logan series written by Ms Taylor. Although this book was more for children versus the first book "The Land" was, still just as good. And although she didn't write in the beginning of this one this is what she wrote in the first pages of "The Land" and it appli...
This was book #2 of the Logan series written by Ms Taylor. Although this book was more for children versus the first book "The Land" was it was still almost just as good. And although she didn't write in the beginning of this one this is what she wrote in the first pages of "The Land" and it appl...
You keep it up and you’re gonna make us late.” My youngest brother paid no attention to me. Grasping more firmly his newspaper-wrapped notebook and his tin-can lunch of cornbread and oil sausages, he continued to concentrate on the dusty road. He lagged several feet behind my other brothers, Stac...
They were stories that reached back into time, some even into slavery. Wherever the family gathered, in our northern home where I grew up or in the South where I was born, the stories were told. Some of the stories were humorous, some were tragic, but all taught me a history not then written in t...