Mildred D Taylor
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
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English
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A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 9
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Cassie Logan, first met in Song of the Trees and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated...
3) The land
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 8
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own.
5) The Well
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 7
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
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Another powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
For David Logan, a time of distress means taking the higher road.
During a drought, the Logan family shares their well water with their neighbors, black and white alike. But David’s brother Hammer finds it hard to share with Charlie Simms, who torments them because...
For David Logan, a time of distress means taking the higher road.
During a drought, the Logan family shares their well water with their neighbors, black and white alike. But David’s brother Hammer finds it hard to share with Charlie Simms, who torments them because...
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 3
Pub. Date
[1981]
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English
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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.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 6
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
62 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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English
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During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee River.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 1
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English
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During the Depression, a rural black family deeply attached to the forest on their land tries to save it from being cut down by an unscrupulous white man.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 4
Pub. Date
[1987]
Physical Desc
53 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 7
Pub. Date
1995.
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92 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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In Mississippi in the early 1900s ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 5
Pub. Date
[1990]
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290 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940's rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.