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Summary: Her best book ever!
Review: A great book by a great author. The fact that Mildred Taylor won awards for this book is not surprising. It captures fear, anxiety and love. In my opinion it is her best book, better than Roll of Thunder, Here my Cry.
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Summary: This Series is Powerful and is a must reader
Review: As the third book in the series about the logan family, it is also the most moving and powerful. There's more racism but there's more defending for their rights.
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Summary: Best Book ever!
Review: Hi,
... I just finished reading The road to memphis I started crying it was so great I was just wondering if anybody know if she's going write another book? ...
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Summary: awesome book
Review: I also read Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry and Let the Circle Be Unbroken and all three of these books are really good. I wish Mildred D. Taylor would keep on writing sequels to these books because they are excellent.
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Summary: The Road to Memphis
Review: I am in eighth grade at San Francisco Day School. I read both The Road to Memphis by Mildred Taylor and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee for my English class. I found the two books closely related. They are both about a community in a racist time period and how it survives, or attempts to survive the hardships it suffers in a short period. The Road to Memphis is about a black community in the 1940's. The main character, Cassie, is a young black lady whose core group of family and friends is torn apart by several incidents over a three day period. Cassie's dream was to go to law school and become a lawyer. She thought that the court was a fair place where everyone, including blacks, were treated equally. This is the same belief Atticus and his family had in To Kill a Mockingbird before the Tom Robinson trial, when they lost faith in the whole judicial system. Unfortunately, a "fair" court does not make up for the unfair community and population running the court. Cassie's community was split up by racial slurs, death, and the start of World War Two. I thought that The Road to Memphis did a superb job of illustrating what life was like for a black lady in a time when neither ladies nor blacks were highly respected. The novel also showed how much your life can change in a very short time period. In the three days of turmoil Cassie found out how harsh this world was. She was harassed by several white men and lost four of her closest companions to death, or to the misuse of the power of the white community. It was disturbing how in three tragedy filled days, a young lady's life can be ruined, and the cards containing the future of a community can be shuffled so thoroughly. To Kill a Mockingbird also did an outstanding job of portraying the harshness of being black at that time. Although the spotlight was on a white family, Harper Lee was using that position to go inside a white community and write about their feelings toward blacks. The Tom Robinson trial was a good example of how a black person's life can be ruined by the corrupt, white dominated court.
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Summary: GREAT Book
Review: I found this book to be one of the greatest books I have everread. It gets right down to the pointabout racism. I read "Roll Of Thunder Here My Cry."; But this one was far better. This book is about Love, Sorrow, Humiliation, and the pain that being African-American brought in Cassie's time. If I could choose one book for people to read it would definitely be this one. END
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Summary: My review
Review: I gave The Road to Memphis four stars because I find the book interesting and powerful. The author, Mildred D. Taylor, focuses her theme on racial discrimination and how it affected the black people during 1941. Also, I find the book powerful because it was really dramatic and compelling to the audience. The author explains things clearly, such as how the setting was connected to the character and how it develops a conflict.
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Summary: 10 year old reader:I love this book
Review: I love The Road To Memphis. I started reading Mildred D. Taylor's book at the beginning last year at school as a class reading but right away I loved it by the time my teacher stared I was at the end of chapter 1 in Roll of Thunder,Hear My Cry. After that I couldn't stop reading, and I got in trouble for reading it so quickly, but then I read Let the Circle be Unbroken, then found myself reading The Road To Memphis. The main charcters of this book is Cassie,Stacey,Moe,Claudia,Little man,Christopher-John. When Moe gets tired of the whites treating him like dirt,he beats up 3 white boys,almost killing them. Then has to make a run for a train in Memphis to get to Stacey's uncle Hammer, But on the way somebody dies (i'm not saying who).In the end even a white's life messes up.Before I read this book I knew slaves had a hard time, but after slavery I didn't know how they were treated, and I think all whites (including me) are well respected of blacks even without reading theese books.! And I recomend you reading her other books to!
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Summary: The Last Book and the Best
Review: I loved this book along with the rest in the series. I only wish the author would make more books on the series. Like what happens to Moe and Stacey? Do they have to fight in WWII. The book ends the series with you still hanging on. This book jumps quite a bit of time. In the first 2 books Cassie Logan is only about 10yrs old. Now she is 17. Since in the first 2 books Little Man and Christopher-John were young, when ever I read their name I thought of a little kid. Instead of a kid my own age. So that was kinda confusing. I guess the author just likes to make you think. This SERIES was a great series and I enjoyed it a lot.
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Summary: The Road to Memphis
Review: I LOVED this book! After reading ALL of the preceeding Logan stories by Taylor, I couldn't wait to dive into this book. It's a wonderful "coming of age" story. Cassie Logan and her brother Stacy, along with their childhood friends find themselves on what turns out to be a more than an eventful journey to Memphis. Cassie and the others experience the South in the early 1900's outside of the protective reach of their father David, Uncle Hammer, Mr. Morrison, and family friend Wade Jamison. Readers begin to see Cassie as a young woman instead of a little girl in this story. We still see some of the characters from the previous books and are introduced to a list of exciting new ones. I really think that this is the best of Taylor's novels. I hope there will be a follow-up.
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