Books with author Mildred Taylor

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The Mississippi of the 1930s is a hard place for a black child to grow up in and Cassie finds it difficult to understand why the farm means so much to her father. But, as she witnesses the hatred and destruction around her, she begins to learn the importance of fighting for your principles.

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In Mississippi in the early 1900s, ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Cassie Logan, a young black woman in 1940s Mississippi, becomes caught up in a tense confrontation between blacks and whites--three days of turmoil and unrest that will change her life forever.

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Cassie Logan is an independent girl who discovers why having land of their own is so crucial to the Logan family, even as she learns to draw strength from her own sense of dignity and self-respect.

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1997 Houghton Mifflin Paperback Plus Level 5 Theme 9: Responsibility and Freedom -- Song of the Trees (P) by Mildred D. Taylor / Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney ***ISBN-13: 9780395811573 ***Pages: 46

Book by Taylor, Mildred D.

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This live action video (21 minutes) takes viewers to Mildred Taylor's home in Colorado, where she continues to chronicle the history of the Logan family. Inside her log cabin home, she talks about how she dreamed of becoming a writer from the age of ten.

A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.