- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Puffin; Reprint edition (Sep 7 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0140386424
- ISBN-13: 978-0140386424
- Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 13.2 x 0.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 68 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #524,228 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Praising the fully developed characters, PW said that this prequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry "skillfully delivers powerful messages about racism and moral fortitude." Ages 8-12.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Grade 4-6?Another contribution to the Logan family saga, this is Father's account of an incident from his boyhood. During a drought in 1910, 10-year-old David Logan's family has the only working well in their part of Mississippi. They share their water willingly with both black and white neighbors, but white teenager Charlie Simms tests their generosity, goading David's older brother Hammer into a fight requiring restitution in the form of labor on the Simms's farm. Charlie and his brother get even for the disgrace of Hammer's beating by secretly contaminating the Logans' well with dead animals, only to be exposed and punished when a neighbor reveals their act. While David narrates, this is really Hammer's story; his pride and steely determination not to be put down are the source of the novel's action and power. Readers will feel the Logans' fear and righteous anger at the injustice and humiliation they suffer because they are black. As in The Friendship (Dial, 1987), Taylor has used her gift for storytelling and skillful characterization to craft a brief but compelling novel about prejudice and the saving power of human dignity.?Marie Orlando, Suffolk Cooperative Library System, Bellport, NY
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
BLACK vs. WHITE,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Well (Paperback)
I gave this book five stars because it was like you were in the olden days when blacks and whites were against each other. This book is about two boys named David and Hammer. They live in Mississippi. During the summer time there is usual a drought. But the Logan's well doesn't dry up. And they share their water with everybody who's anybody. Well one day Hammer and David were bringing their cows back from the Rosa Lee and they meet Charlie with a wheel off of his wagon. Well he asks Hammer and David to help him get it back on. So David said he would help him even though he has a busted leg. Charlie took a long time to put the wheel back on and David said he couldn't hold it much longer. So he dropped it and Charlie fell back with the wheel. He got up and hit David and he fell down. Then Hammer came over and jumped on Charlie and started to hit him. Then Charlie fell back and hit his head on a rock and it knocked him out. It is not legal to hit a white man. You could get hung.The setting was in Mississippi during the summer time. It was during the 1800's, in the post slavery era.
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The best thriller,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Well (Paperback)
This is a book about a boy and his family going through the early parts of Rascism and the heartaches of how water changes during a drought People who don't like you come and talk to you until you need something, but when you hit a white man back then and you were black bad things happen find out what can happen in the Well By Mildred D Taylor. But when you use your head you can do lots of thinges but not that many when you hit someone.
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Old Days,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Well (Paperback)
I am done reading the well and I think that It was one of the best books that were short. I wouldn't have read it if it weren't for my teaching talking me into it. It explains what blacks went though back then pretty well. It was good I think that Hammer took up for his brother and hit the simms son back. The part were they got a whipping, and it sounded like it was a real whipping was sad and horrible at the same time. Mildred did good on the well it was great, but I think it should have 4 stars. p.s.I hope of your books are that good
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