The Road to Memphis

by Mildred D. Taylor

Book Overview

A stunning repackage of a companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, with cover art by two-time Caldecott Honor Award winner Kadir Nelson As America hovers on the brink of war,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803703406
• ISBN13: 9780803703407
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Dial Books
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher

Customer Reviews

ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

This book is absolutely great! Mildred D. Taylor explains the hardships of blacks in her books. This is a very sad book because Cassie has 3 friends that leave and her brother leaves. Cassie says she'll never fall in love, but she falls in love with a guy named Solomo Bradley. I won't give the book away to you, so get a book yourself a read it to see what happens! I wish Taylor would make a sequal to this book because I want to know what happens. I HIGHLY RECCOEND THIS BOOK! Get it now!

Excellent! 5 Star Quality Book!

This book was so expressive in everything about it! The people seemed real, the events seemed real. It was so amazing! The troubles blacks faced was enough to drive any person today wild and we have to know how strong both black and white are because without either one of us today, nothing would be the same. When Jeremy did what he did and the consequences he faced, I realized that everything in this book counted. Mildred D. Taylor brings this story alive with a modern touch that has people want to read it. I have never read a book that made me feel the way I feel about this book. And I know you will enjoy it. It is not just some racist book. It is a good book that everyone will enjoy and I have nothing negative to say about it! You will enjoy it and I hope you found my review helpful!

10 year old reader:I love this book

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!

I Loved This Book!!!!!!!!!

I read this book in one day!! I read "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry" in 8th grade as a class requirment and I loved it and I started looking for the sequals and prequals a couple of weeks ago. So far I like this one the best. Cassie Logan is 17 and still has a temper when it comes to segragation and one of the young white boys Jeremy Simms cousin Statler is setting eyes on young and beautiful Cassie Logan. an incident happens causing the Moe to flee to Memphis with the help of Cassie, Stacie, Clarence, Little Willie, and Jeremy Simms. On the way Cassie meets a very handsome man in a cafe........... Great book I highly reccomend you read it or get it for your child. Taylor is very good in expressing the hardships of the African American people during that time period.

A definite must read book

I thought The Road To Memphis was a very dramatic,compelling book. This is the third novel in the series written about the Logan family. This book takes place in 1941, right before the outbreak of World WarII. Cassie is 17 years old and a senior in high school dreaming of going onto law school. Stacey is working in Jackson and is driving his first car. A sequence of tragic events, incuding pregnancy and death, threatens to seperate the family, possibly forever. In Jackson Moe lashes out at his white tormentors, an act unheard of in Mississippi back then, almost killing them. Cassie, Stacey and their friends must try to get Moe to Memphis and safety. At the end of the book it doesn't tell you what happens to Jeremy, Stacey, Moe or Cassie. I found myself asking what happened to them? Mildred D. Taylor is and excellent writer. In reading this book I found she depicted the magnitude of racism in the 1940's very well. It really gave me an idea of what life was like in that era. It also made me realize how times have changed and how ucky I am to live in this day and age. I would suggest this book to readers who are old enough to comprehend the realism of it. This is a great book that I think all people should read at sometime in their life.