The+Land

**The Land** //by Mildred Taylor//
//Spark Notes//


 * Description:** The 14-year-old son of a prosperous white landowner and a former slave in Georgia strikes out on his own after face discrimination from both races and within his own family.

//Source: Borders.com//

//The Land// is Mildred D. Taylor's wonderful prequel to her Newbery Medal winner, //[|Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry]//. In the stories Taylor has to tell, life is not fair, hard work doesn't always pay off, and the good guy doesn't always win. That's because this extraordinary author tells the stories of her African American family in the Deep South during and after the Civil War, a time of ugly, painful racism.
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//Source: Amazon.com//