Mildred D. Taylor Books In Order

Logan Family Saga Books In Publication Order

  1. Song of the Trees (1975)
  2. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1975)
  3. Let the Circle Be Unbroken (1981)
  4. The Friendship (1987)
  5. The Gold Cadillac (1987)
  6. Mississippi Bridge (1990)
  7. The Road to Memphis (1992)
  8. The Well (1995)
  9. The Land (2001)
  10. All the Days Past, All the Days to Come (2020)

Logan Family Saga Books In Chronological Order

  1. The Land (2001)
  2. The Well (1995)
  3. Song of the Trees (1975)
  4. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1975)
  5. Mississippi Bridge (1990)
  6. Let the Circle Be Unbroken (1981)
  7. The Friendship (1987)
  8. The Road to Memphis (1992)
  9. The Gold Cadillac (1987)
  10. All the Days Past, All the Days to Come (2020)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. The Friendship And Other Stories (1991)

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Mildred D. Taylor Books Overview

Song of the Trees

With the depression bearing down on her family and food in short supply, Cassie Logan isn’t sure where her next meal will come from. But there is one thing that she knows will always be there-the whispering trees outside her window. Cassie’s trees are a steady source of comfort to her, but they also happen to be worth a lot of money. When Mr. Andersen tries to force Big Ma to sell their valuable trees, Cassie can’t just sit by and let it happen. She knows that her family needs the money, but something tells her that they need the trees just as much. The beloved hero*ine of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry enchants us again in this story of strength and pride.

Illustrated by Jerry Pinkey

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

‘We have no choice of what colour we’re born or who our parents are or whether we’re rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we’re here.’ The Mississippi of the 1930s was a hard place for a black child to grow up in, but still Cassie didn’t understand why farming his own land meant so much to her father. During that year, though, when the night riders were carrying hatred and destruction among her people, she learned about the great differences that divided them, and when it was worth fighting for a principle even if it brought terrible hardships.

Let the Circle Be Unbroken

For the Logan family, it is a frightening and turbulent time. First, their friend, T.J., must go on trial for murder and confront an all white jury. Then Cousin Suzella tries to pass for white, with humiliating consequences. And when Cassie’s neighbor, Mrs. Lee Annie, stand up for her right to vote, she and her family are driven from their home. Other neighbors are destroyed and shattered by the greed of landowners. But through it all, Cassie and the Logans stand together and stand proud proving that courage, love, and understanding can defy even the deepest prejudice.

The Friendship

Cassie Logan and her brothers have been warned never to go to the Wallace store, so they know to expect trouble there. What they don’t expect is to hear Mr. Tom Bee, an elderly black man, daring to call the white storekeeper by his first name. The year is 1933, the place is Mississippi, and any child knows that some things just aren’t done. Black & white illustrations .

The Gold Cadillac

Lois and Wilma are proud of their father’s brand new gold Cadillac, and excited that the family will be driving it all the way from Ohio to Mississippi. But as they travel deeper into the rural South, there are no admiring glances for the shiny new car only suspicion and anger for the black man behind the wheel. For the first time in their lives, Lois and her sister know what it’s like to feel scared because of the color of their skin. A personal, poignant look at a black child’s first experience with institutional racism. The New York Times/

Mississippi Bridge

Jeremy Simms watches from the porch of the general store as the passengers board the weekly bus from Jackson. When several white passengers arrive late, the driver roughly orders the black passengers off to make room. Then, in the driving rain, disaster strikes, and Jeremy witnesses a shocking end to the day’s drama. Set in Mississippi in the 1930s, this is a gripping story of racial injustice.

‘Taylor, a powerful storyteller, again combines authentic incidents to create a taut plot…
. Her cry for justice always rings true.’–Kirkus Reviews

‘A powerful story about the segregated South of the 1930s.’–Publishers Weekly

The Road to Memphis

This is the third volume in the Logan saga. In 1941, America is filled with rumblings of war. But Cassie Logan is more concerned about problems at home in Mississippi. Caught up in the quarrel between two lovers, she realises that no amount of schooling can prepare one for the reality of life.

The Well

From Newbery Medal winner Mildred Taylor comes an unforgettable story about the Logan family, set a generation earlier than Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. David and Hammer are young boys in the early 1900s when all The Wells go dry except theirs. During that long, dry summer the Logan boys learn that being men has more to do with using their brains than their fists.

The Land

Millions of fans have followed the Logan family in their seven book series. Living in the South in the not so distant past, the Logans are the only black family to own farmland, while most of their black neighbors are sharecroppers on white owned land. But where did this valuable legacy come from?

The story begins with Paul Edward Logan, grandfather of Cassie Logan, the beloved protagonist of Newbery Medal winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Born during the Civil War, Paul Edward is the son of a white plantation owner and a former slave. Though not an unusual heritage, his upbringing is. Paul Edward’s white father sees to it that he and his sister have many of the privileges their white half brothers enjoy. But at fourteen, Paul Edward runs away to seek his fortune. His story is filled with exciting, sometimes heart breaking adventures, and what is most amazing, his dream of land ownership, almost impossible for a black person to accomplish in the post Civil War South, becomes reality.

The Land, like all the books in this award winning series, is based on the experiences of the Taylor family, bringing historical truth and power to this awe inspiring story.

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