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Overview'Everybody born on this earth is something,' Cassie's mother tells her, 'and nobody, no matter what colour, is better than anybody else.' But Mississippi in the 1930s is a harsh place for a young black girl. To assert her equality would be to endanger family and friends. Growing up, Cassie learns the truth of a bitter situation and the inner strength and conviction of her mother's words must sustain her despite what she sees around her. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mildred TaylorPublisher: Pearson Education Limited Imprint: Heinemann Edition: 1st New edition Dimensions: Width: 12.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 18.80cm Weight: 0.300kg ISBN: 9780435123123ISBN 10: 0435123122 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 08 March 1987 Recommended Age: From 13 To 99 Audience: Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , Educational: Primary & Secondary Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThe vivid story... shows the rich inner rewards of black pride, love, and independence. ( Booklist , starred review) At first Cassie Logan and her brothers, a year or so older than they were in the much briefer, gong of the Trees, (1975) are only dimly aware of rumors that two men have been killed and one badly burned by a white mob. Then Mary, their mother, tries to organize a boycott against the Wallaces, the local storeowners and instigators of the violence, and Logan land and lives are put on the line. Cassie's own spirit is demonstrated straight off, on the first day of the school year, when she refuses to accept a schoolbook labeled condition - very poor, race of student - nigra. Like her parents, Cassie learns that she must pick her shots carefully to survive, and she takes pains to learn a few blackmail-level secrets from her special tormentor, Miz Lillian Jean, before giving the older girl a good thrashing. Tragically though, brother Stacey's friend T.J. who isn't so careful, starts hanging around with the Wallace boys and winds up facing a lynch mob after they talk him into helping them rob a store. Although the Logans, whose ownership of desirable farmland has made them a target of white persecution, live in a virtual state of siege, and even after Papa sets fire to his own cotton to divert the attention of the mob from T.J., the story ends unmelodramatically not far from where it began - after a string of hard-fought victories and as many bitter defeats and with the money for the next tax payment on the land still not in sight. Taylor trusts to her material and doesn't try to inflate Cassie's role in these events, and though the strong, clear-headed Logan family is no doubt an idealization, their characters are drawn with quiet affection and their actions tempered with a keen sense of human fallibility. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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