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The Land

By: Mildred D. Taylor
Narrated by: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
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 This searing and inspiring prequel to ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY is the story of Cassie Logan's grandfather. Paul-Edward is the son of a white father and a half-black, half-Indian mother. His father raises him almost as if he were white, but when it counts, he's treated as a black man with racist spite and hatred. He cannot fit into either the black world or the white world. The one thing that Paul-Edward loves is the land, and he spends the rest of his life trying to own land of his own. He takes on a variety of jobs, and is brutally cheated and mistreated by his white employers, but he eventually succeeds, at great personal and financial cost, in owning his own patch of land.©2001 Mildred D. Taylor; (P)2001 Random House, Inc. African American Fiction Growing Up & Facts of Life Historical Fiction Literature & Fiction Dream

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Readers...will grab this and be astonished by its powerful story. (Booklist, starred review)

Taylor's gift for combining history and storytelling is as evident here as in her other stories about the Logan family. (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
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Great as always with Mildred. its great to here about the struggle to get land. The land that we have herd so much about in the other books

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wonderful book and beautifully narrated! original story too :) I've listened to this book a couple times now, you can't beat it.

absolutely fantastic

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This story is very sad, funny. It covers the good times, and very bad times. I choked up in parts

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I genuinely loved this story and was so sad when the book ended, as I wanted more. The tale covers happiness, sadness, love, hate and triumph over adversity. Well worth a listen!

Beautifully Written and Narrated Story!

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