The Land and Other Books by Mildred D. Taylor

RESOURCES

Further Reading

Crowe, Chris. Presenting Mildred D. Taylor. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1999.

Taylor, Mildred D. "Mildred D. Taylor." Something About the Author Autobiography Series, vol. 5. Adele Sarkissian, Ed. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1988. 267-286.

Ibid. "Acceptance Speech for the 1997 ALAN Award." http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ ejournals/ALAN/spring98/taylor.html

"Taylor, Mildred D." Something About the Author, vol 70. Donna Olendorf and Diane Telgen, Eds. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1993. 222-226.

Internet Sites

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/taylor.htm

http://www.indiana.edu/~reading/ieo/bibs/taylor.html

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/roll/rolltg.htm

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/rollofthunder/

Videocassettes

Taylor, Mildred D. "Mildred D. Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry." Videocassette. Films for the Humanities and Sciences. 1988, 1991 release. #2800.

"Meet the Newbery Author: Mildred Taylor." Videocassette. Produced by Miller- Brody. Distributed by American School Publs. 1991 #004614.

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The Black Americans: A History in Their Own Words by Milton Meltzer

The Civil Rights Movement in America: from 1865 to the Present by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack

The Civil Rights Movement: An Eyewitness History by Sanford Wexler

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 by Juan Williams

Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories by Ellen Levine

I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle by Charles M. Payne

Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins

Slavery Time When I Was Chillun edited by Belinda Hurmence

Witnesses to Freedom: Young People Who Fought for Civil Rights by Belinda Rochelle

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Books By Mildred D. Taylor

The Friendship

• ALA Notable Children's Book
• Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
• Coretta Scott King Award
• NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
  0-14-038964-4 pb
  0-8037-0417-8 hc

• Christopher Award
• NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
  0-14-038963-6 pb
  0-8037-0342-2 hc

Let the Circle Be Unbroken

• ALA Best Book for Young Adults
• ALA Notable Children's Book
• Coretta Scott King Award
• National Book Award Nominee
• NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
• New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year
  0-14-034892-1 pb
  0-8037-4748-9 hc

• Christopher Award
• NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
  0-14-130817-6 pb

• ALA Best Book for Young Adults
• ALA Notable Children's Book
• Coretta Scott King Award
• NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
  0-14-036077-8 pb
  0-8037-0340-6 hc

• ALA Notable Children's Book
• Booklist's Best of the Best Books 1970-1982
• Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor
• Coretta Scott King Honor
• Horn Book Fanfare Honor List
• Kirkus Choice
• National Book Award Nominee
• NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
• Newbery Medal
  0-14-034893-X pb (rack-trim)
  0-14-038451-0 pb (digest-trim)
  0-8037-2647-3 hc

• Coretta Scott King Honor
• Council on Interracial Books Award
• National Book Award Honor
• New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year
  0-8037-5452-3 hc

• ALA Notable Children's Book
• ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers
• NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
  0-14-038642-4 pb
  0-8037-1802-0 hc

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