The land

By Mildred D. Taylor

Subjects: Autobiographical fiction, Young adult fiction, Race relations, fiction, African Americans, Family life, fiction, African americans, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 12, Reading Level-Grade 9, Afro-Americans, Prejudices, Logan family (Fictitious characters : Taylor), Historical fiction, Southern states, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 8, Racially mixed people, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 7, Fiction, Children's fiction, Coretta Scott King Award, Reading Level-Grade 11, Racially mixed people, Juvenile fiction, Reading Level-Grade 10, Race relations, Prejudices, fiction

Description: The son of a prosperous landowner and a former slave, Paul-Edward Logan is unlike any other boy he knows. His white father has acknowledged him and raised him openly-something unusual in post-Civil War Georgia. But as he grows into a man he learns that life for someone like him is not easy. Black people distrust him because he looks white. White people discriminate against him when they learn of his black heritage. Even within his own family he faces betrayal and degradation. So at the age of fourteen, he sets out toward the only dream he has ever had: to find land every bit as good as his father's, and make it his own. Once again inspired by her own history, Ms. Taylor brings truth and power to the newest addition to the award-winning Logan family stories.