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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
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Winner of the Newbery Medal, this remarkably moving novel has impressed the hearts and minds of millions of readers.
Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice. And it is also Cassie's story—Cassie Logan, an independent girl who discovers over the course of an important year why having...
Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice. And it is also Cassie's story—Cassie Logan, an independent girl who discovers over the course of an important year why having...
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 9
Pub. Date
2020.
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viii, 483 pages ; 24 cm.
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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
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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...
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 4
Pub. Date
1998
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Cassie witnesses a black man address a white storekeeper by his first name.
"A powerful story . . .Readers will be haunted by its drama and emotion long after they have closed the book." —Booklist
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 3
Pub. Date
1991
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"This dramatic sequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a powerful novel . . .capable of touching readers of any age." —The Christian Science Monitor
6) The land
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 8
Pub. Date
2016.
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369, 14 pages : genealogical table ; 20 cm
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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.
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"You men got a choice. Pull leather and die, or drop your guns. Makes no never mind to me."
Callum Logan is a man of quick decision and execution. His fast gun has saved him on more than one occasion. Though hardened by the horrors of the Civil War, he gives each man a chance, unless they prove it's undeserved.
Now, on his way to begin a new life in the Colorado West, Callum is eager to put the killing behind him. But while rescuing a family from...
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"You keep turning that shotgun toward me, Pickering, and your boys'll be hauling your fat carcass to the cemetery."
Callum Logan faces a challenge along a trail he has traveled before. But this time, he is accompanied by precious cargo.
Ride the Cherokee Trail with Callum, three years after a bloody war that divided state against state, town against town, and brother against brother, as he attempts to guide his family from their ravaged horse farm...
9) Logan's Word
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As Lieutenant Rory Nance lay dying after the battle of Cedar Creek in the Shenandoah Valley, Captain Josh Logan gave his word to his best friend.
Now, two years later, deep in the Comancheria, Josh Logan rides to accomplish his dying friend's request. As he rides through the rolling West Texas hills, blood-thirsty Comanches could wait in the next ravine or around the next hill. Yet, he is determined to fulfill his promise.
His message delivered,...
10) Forgotten Season
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A Civil War soldier survives his battlefield wounds ... but a final head shot erases his memory and leaves him comatose. After surviving the bloodiest war in US history, will it be peacetime that finally kills him?
Henry Remington awakes from a six-month coma with a Medal of Honor pinned to his pillow, but no recollection of how he got there. When two fellow soldiers insist he saved them and want to repay the favor, Hank accepts their offer of a job...
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