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| Original Title: | The Land |
| ISBN: | 0142501468 (ISBN13: 9780142501467) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Logans #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Scott O'Dell Award (2002), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature (2001), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2003), Coretta Scott King Book Award for Author (2002), Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2004) |
Mildred D. Taylor
Paperback | Pages: 400 pages Rating: 4.13 | 5871 Users | 351 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Land (Logans #1) |
| Author | : | Mildred D. Taylor |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 400 pages |
| Published | : | October 14th 2003 by Speak (first published 2001) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. Childrens. Cultural. African American. Classics |
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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.Rating Out Of Books The Land (Logans #1)
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Mildred D Taylor is a master storyteller and is incredibly gifted in character development. Our family has been captivated by the Logan family's generational story as we have read her books outloud. The Land gives insightful background to the book we started with--Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry--and a greater understanding of why fighting to hold on to the land was so important to Cassie's family. The way Taylor brings out racial issues allows the reader to ponder them from different angles. InThis book was a very interesting look at a subject in American history that we tend to hush up--the relationship between a white slave owner and his slave. Although that aspect of history is explored in a few books and gone into here in vague detail, the book's main focus is on the product of that union. This is the first book I've read that deals with that issue. I think it does a good job not only of detailing the hardships the mixed race children face, but also the conflicting feelings of
This has to be one of my favourite reads of the year!Loved Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry as a child and was excited to hear that this prequel (and a couple of sequels) existed. Thanks to the Read Harder Challenge (and the redhead) for steering me in the direction of this "very fine" novel!The lead character and narrator is entirely believable and despite his trials and tribulations behaves in a way that is consistent with his character. I liked the fact that the good guys don't always win and the
Let's just say that I planned on not really enjoying this book. Mostly because I hate to say it, but I judged it by its cover and its title. I just sort of thought it had little to offer me, a 30-something woman, but I knew that the high goodreads rating couldn't be that far off, and so I cracked it open. Besides, I had to finish reading it before my students did.It surprised me right off with its story of Paul-Edward Logan, son to a white plantation owner and a slave. I almost thought I had
One of my favorite books ever :)This is the first book in the Logan saga. Which, by the way, must be one of my favorite sagas/series ever. In short, this book chronicles the life of Cassie's grandfather, Paul. It depicts his life as he struggles to accept his multiracial heritage(he's N.American, Black, and White). He was born a slave, to his slave mother and his master father. He grew up actually being acknowledged by his white father, which was rare. I guess it's kind of hard to explain unless
Mostly interested in this novel (and series) for the ways Taylor writes about Black land ownership and place-attachment. I definitely need to read more scholarship and history about the subject, I do see some of the problematic tropes of Native erasure that you typically see in white-authored novels. There's a tenuous connection to Native ancestry at work in this novel, but the black-white racial dichotomy dominates the plot and character development.
I am not exaggerating when I say this is one of the greatest books ever! The Land is about an African American boy named Paul Edward Logan, who lives on his white fathers plantation. Paul lives in the time of racism, slaves, and disrespect of black men and women. Even his very own father treats him differently than Pauls white brothers he cannot eat at the table when there are guests. Nor can he talk to white men the way they treat him. Paul begins to realize the truth of it all. However, he
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