Let the Circle Be Unbroken - Softcover

Taylor, Mildred D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812409345 ISBN 13: 9780812409345

Publisher: Perfection Learning Prebound, 1984

Synopsis

Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive.

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Review:

"Readers will be moved by the intense drama."

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: Perfection Learning Prebound
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0812409345
• ISBN 13: 9780812409345
• Binding: Paperback