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The Road to Memphis
As America hovers on the brink of war, seventeen year-old Cassie Logan fights a battle closer to home. She dreams of college and law school. But no amount of schooling can prepare her for the violent explosion that takes place when her friend Moe lashes out at his white tormentors--an action unheard of in Mississippi as the country prepares for World War II. Moe will be in even greater danger if he stays in town, so it is up to Cassie, her brother, and their friends to accompany Moe on the road to Memphis--and to safety.
"Cassie recounts harrowing events during late 1941. An engrossing picture of fine young people endeavoring to find the right way in a world that persistently wrongs them."--Kirkus Reviews
"An enlightening, moving novel."--Publishers Weekly
Book Details
- Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
- Publish Date: Apr 12nd, 2016
- Pages: 320
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.75in - 5.16in - 0.56in - 0.50lb
- EAN: 9781101997550
- Recommended age: 10-UP
- Categories: • African American & Black• Family - Multigenerational• Places - United States
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About the Author
Kadir Nelson (www.kadirnelson.com) is a two-time Caldecott Honor Award recipient. He has received an NAACP Image Award, a CASEY Award, the 2009 and 2014 Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the 2009 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award. Among Mr. Nelson's other awards are gold and silver medals from the Society of Illustrators. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, and The New Yorker. He lives in Los Angeles.
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What people are saying
Professor. Contributor @TheCut Books: Beyond Respectability| Eloquent Rage| The Crunk Feminist Collection| Feminist AF| Stand Up!
Such an excellent read. I’m fairly sure Mildred Taylor was the first Black fiction writer I ever read. And I remember how much I loved Roll of Thunder, Let the Circle Be Unbroken and The Road to Memphis. Cheers to this essay. https://t.co/8TnC2BE14v
Praise for this book
"An enlightening, moving novel."--Publishers Weekly
"Mildred D. Taylor's novels about the Logan family have been hugely popular for two good reasons: They bring alive a fragment of the history of black life in the Deep South... [and] paint an appealingly detailed picture of the warm family relations and the embracing communal spirit to remind us that black life, day to day, however troubled, is not the disaster it looks like when it is simplified by sociology. There is pleasure, dignity, and palpable pride in Great Faith, near Strawberry, Miss., where the Logans are landowners with a fierce attachment to their own soil."--The New York Times
"Powerful, readable, and fast-moving."--VOYA
"This is a dramatic, painful book."--School Library Journal
"A powerful...picture of the racist menace in pre-civil rights days."--Booklist
What people are saying
Professor. Contributor @TheCut Books: Beyond Respectability| Eloquent Rage| The Crunk Feminist Collection| Feminist AF| Stand Up!
Such an excellent read. I’m fairly sure Mildred Taylor was the first Black fiction writer I ever read. And I remember how much I loved Roll of Thunder, Let the Circle Be Unbroken and The Road to Memphis. Cheers to this essay. https://t.co/8TnC2BE14v