

The Road to Memphis
Author: Mildred D. Taylor
Series: Logan Family Saga #7
Narrator: Allyson Johnson
Unabridged: 8 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Listening Library
Published: 02/20/2018
Author: Mildred D. Taylor
Series: Logan Family Saga #7
Narrator: Allyson Johnson
Unabridged: 8 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Listening Library
Published: 02/20/2018
Mildred D. Taylor is the author of nine novels including The Road to Memphis, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, The Land, and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Her books have won numerous awards, among them a Newbery Medal (for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry), four Coretta Scott King Awards, and a Boston Globe—Horn Book Award. Her book The Land was awarded the L.A. Times Book Prize and the PEN Award for Children’s Literature. In 2003, Ms. Taylor was named the First Laureate of the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature.Mildred Taylor was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and grew up in Toledo, Ohio. After graduating from the University of Toledo, she served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia for two years and then spent the next year traveling throughout the United States, working and recruiting for the Peace Corps. At the University of Colorado’s School of Journalism, she helped created a Black Studies program and taught in the program for two years. Ms. Taylor has worked as a proofreader-editor and as program coordinator for an international house and a community free school. She now devotes her time to her family, writing, and what she terms “the family ranch” in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
***NOTE: As part of our 2020 reading challenges, my mom and I are revisiting the old works of her favorite YA author, Mildred D. Taylor, and will soon get to read All the Days Past, All the Days to Come for the very first time.*** This one seems particularly devastating, I guess because Cassie and he......more
Mildred D. Taylor has always been one of my favorite authors, ever since I was a little girl. (The fact that we shared a first name was also a bonus.) Her first book about the Logan family, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry was one of my absolute favorite books and I burned through the rest in the series,......more
Cassie is now a teenager and attending high school in Jackson. Racism is still rampant but things become dangerous when her friend Moe lashes out at his white tormenters. Stacey, Cassie, and couple of other friends are determined to drive him to Memphis so we can take the train to Chicago where he w......more
I love Mildred Taylor’s writing style. There is so much depth within the plot and with the characters. This story is so sad.......more
Taylor, Mildred. The Road to Memphis, Puffin Books, 290 pages. Fictional chapter book, historic fiction. Description: In this sequel to the book, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Cassie Logan is nearly grown up, attending high school in Jackson and thinking about college. When her friend Moe lashes out......more
"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
"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