Friendship - Hardcover

Taylor, Mildred D.; Juvenile Collection (Library Of Congress)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803704186 ISBN 13: 9780803704183

Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1987

Synopsis

Cassie Logan and her brothers make a revealing discovery when an old Black man calls a white storekeeper by his first name, in a story set in Mississippi in 1933

About this title

Review:

It's hot and humid in 1933 Mississippi, when an elderly black man and a white store owner test their friendship against a backdrop of racism and peer pressure. An explosive confrontation takes place when the black man, Tom Bee, greets the clerk, John Wallace, by his first name--an intimacy unheard of at the time. A group of witnesses heckles Wallace for what they perceive as his permissiveness, and in spite of his private promise to Bee to allow him to greet him this way, Wallace betrays Bee, shooting him in the leg. This brief but poignant story won the 1988 Coretta Scott King Award. It provides strong characterization as well as food for thought on racism and human relations.

About the Author:

Mildred D. Taylor is the author of nine novels including The Road to Memphis, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, The Land, The Well, and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Her books have won numerous awards, among them a Newbery Medal (for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry), four Coretta Scott King Awards, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Her book The Land was awarded the L.A. Times Book Prize and the PEN Award for Children's Literature. In 2003, Ms. Taylor was named the First Laureate of the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature. Ms. Taylor now devotes her time to her family, writing, and what she terms "the family ranch" in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0803704186
• ISBN 13: 9780803704183
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 53
• Illustrator: Ginsburg Max