| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780803703421 | | Publisher: Dial Books | | Publish Date: 5/1/1987 | | Buy.com Sku: 30157666 | | Item#: R6X27C | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9H x 7L x 0.5T |
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| | | A girl can't understand why her mother is so upset when her father buys a gold Cadillac in this Newbery Award-winning autobiographical story of a closely knit black American family.
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Daddy and Mother-Dear travel from Ohio to Mississippi in a brand-new gold Cadillac and discover the anger and prejudice evoked by blacks owning such a fancy car.
| Author Bio| Mildred D. Taylor | | Mildred Taylor is best known for her historical fiction featuring African-American families. Although Taylor was born in Mississippi, she and her family moved to Ohio as her father did not want to raise his family in the segregated South. It was during her Ohio school years that Taylor first discovered the need for historical stories about African Americans. She felt that what she and other students learned from textbooks did not accurately portray the lives and history of African Americans. Taylor attended the University of Toledo, after which she joined the Peace Corps to teach English and history in Ethiopia. Upon returning to the U.S., she entered the School of Journalism at the University of Colorado. During this time, as a member of the Black Student Alliance, she helped the university develop a black studies program. Her first book, SONG OF THE TREES, was published in 1975 after it was entered in a contest sponsored by the Council on Interracial Books for Children. Taylor's second book, ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY won the 1977 Newbery Medal. In 1982. LET THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN received the Coretta Scott King Award. |
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