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.
Kadir Nelson (www.kadirnelson.com) is a two-time
Caldecott Honor Award recipient. He has received an NAACP Image
Award, a CASEY Award, the 2009 and 2014 Coretta Scott King Author
Award, and the 2009 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award.
Among Mr. Nelson's other awards are gold and silver medals from the
Society of Illustrators. His work has appeared in The New York
Times, Sports Illustrated, and The New Yorker. He lives
in Los Angeles.
"The vivid story of a black family whose warm ties to each other
and their land give them strength to defy rural Southern racism
during the Depression. . . . Entirely through its own internal
development, the novel shows the rich inner rewards of black pride,
love, and independence despite the certainty of outer defeat."
—Booklist (starred review)
"The strong, clear-headed Logan family . . . are drawn with quiet
affection and their actions tempered with a keen sense of human
fallibility."—Pointer, Kirkus Reviews
"The events and setting of the powerful novel are presented with
such verisimilitude and the characters are so carefully drawn that
one might assume the book to be autobiographical, if the author
were not so young."—The Horn Book"This recently published special
40th anniversary edition of the Newbery-Award winning coming-of-age
story features gorgeous new cover art by Kadir Nelson . .
. The theme of community resistance to racism is still
relevant, and the 10-year-old narrator, Cassie, is an inspirational
protagonist for boys and girls of all ages.”—Ebony
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