The land

By Mildred D. Taylor

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