However, despite owning their own land, the family continues to struggle to protect it, and continues to fight to protect their children from discrimination and even danger. Cassie and her family are the direct descendants of slaves and live on 400 acres of property that they own themselves, a rare accomplishment at the time. Of all the Mildred Taylor books, it is these three books that are best known to modern readers, and for excellent reason: Cassie and her siblings are the sort of protagonists that every young reader longs for in a novel – precocious, strong-willed, and daring.Īs in The Land, the conflicts that arise in these books are primarily centered on issues of race. Although Paul-Edward has passed away, Cassie, her mother and father, three brothers, and Big Ma (Paul-Edward’s cherished wife) all still live on the land that Paul-Edward and Caroline fought so hard to obtain decades earlier. These books all follow Paul-Edward Logan’s young grand-daughter, Cassie Logan, and her immediate family members. In this post, we’re focusing on those three full-length novels: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976), Let the Circle Be Unbroken (1981), and The Road to Memphis (1992). The Saga also contains three other full-length novels that are set after The Land, and two novellas. Taylor’s books, The Land is technically the first of the six books that compose the Logan Family Saga. Although the last published of all Mildred D. Earlier this summer, we wrote about a book called The Land.
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