All the Days Past, All the Days to Come
Taylor completes the Logan family cycle about Cassie and her family that began with Song of the Trees in 1975 and now concludes 45 years later with Cassie an adult, working as an attorney. While marriage, pregnancy, miscarriage, and a professional career may not the usual fare for a book for young people, fans of the Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and other books in the sequence will be interested to know what happened to Cassie and her brothers when they grew up. As with the earlier volumes, readers are given a front-row seat to the struggle for civil rights in the American South through the eyes and experiences of one African American family from Mississippi. Cassie’s personal story from the mid-1940s to 1963 intersects with key events in the Civil Rights Movement, such as the Freedom Riders, voter registration, and the leadership of Medgar Evers. Taylor’s oeuvre of nine books is an absolute gift to readers. ©2021 Cooperative Children’s Book Center
CCBC Age Recommendation: Age 12 and older
Age Range:
Grades 6-8 (Ages 11-13)
Grades 9-12 (Age 14 and older)
Format:
Novel
Subjects:
20th Century
Activism and Resistance
African Americans
Civil Rights
Families
Historical Fiction
Memory
Racism
Diversity subject:
Black/African
Publishers:
Penguin Random House, Viking
Publish Year: 2020
Pages: 483
ISBN: 9780399257308
CCBC Location: Fiction, Taylor