The Land: Paul Edward's Story (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner) - Hardcover

Taylor, Mildred

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803719507 ISBN 13: 9780803719507

Publisher: Puffin, 1998

Synopsis

As the son of a white father and former slave mother, Paul-Edward Logan was given special privileges by his father, which helped him achieve his great accomplishments, including being the only black landowner in his community in the deep South.

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Review:

"Readers . . . will grab this and be astonished by its powerful story."

"Taylor's gift for combining history and storytelling is as evident here as in her other stories about the Logan family."

Taylor's gift for combining history and storytelling is as evident here as in her other stories about the Logan family. ("Publishers Weekly", starred review)

Readers...will grab this and be astonished by its powerful story. ("Booklist," starred review)
Taylor's gift for combining history and storytelling is as evident here as in her other stories about the Logan family. ("Publishers Weekly," starred review)

About the Author:

Mildred D. Taylor is the author of nine novels including The Road to Memphis, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, The Land, 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.

Mildred Taylor was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and grew up in Toledo, Ohio. After graduating from the University of Toledo, she served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia for two years and then spent the next year traveling throughout the United States, working and recruiting for the Peace Corps. At the University of Colorado’s School of Journalism, she helped created a Black Studies program and taught in the program for two years. Ms. Taylor has worked as a proofreader-editor and as program coordinator for an international house and a community free school. She 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: Puffin
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0803719507
• ISBN 13: 9780803719507
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 96