The Friendship by Mildred D Taylor

The Friendship by Mildred D Taylor

Another powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

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. Can a shared past between the two men make a difference?

A powerful story.Readers will be haunted by its drama and emotion long after they have closed the book.--Booklist

The Road to Memphis, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, The Land, and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry are among Taylor's past works. Her books have received numerous honors, including a Newbery Medal (for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry), four Coretta Scott King Awards, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Her novel The Land won the L.A. Times Book Prize. The PEN Award for Children's Fiction and the Times Book Prize Taylor was named the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature's First Laureate in 2003.

Mildred Taylor grew up in Toledo, Ohio, after being born in Jackson, Mississippi. She spent two years in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia after graduating from the University of Toledo, and then spent the next year working and recruiting for the Peace Corps across the United States. She helped establish a Black Studies program at the University of Colorado School of Journalism and taught in it for two years. Taylor has worked at an international house and a community free school as a proofreader-editor and program coordinator.

She currently spends her time with her family, writing, and what she refers to as the family ranch in the Rocky Mountains' foothills.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780140389647
ISBN 10	0140389644
Title	The Friendship
Author	Mildred D Taylor
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	1998-02-01
Number of pages	80
Prizes	Winner of Coretta Scott King Awards.
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.