Let the Circle Be Unbroken

Description: Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive.

Review Quotes: "Miss Taylor conveys the textures of life among black as well as white and writes not with rancor or bitterness over indignities but with pride, strength, and respect for humanity."--The New York Times

"A profoundly affecting novel."--Publishers Weekly

"The fear, cruelty, and the bewildering injustice of a hopelessly racist society are transcended by a family's strength, self-respect, and determination. The characters, both young and old, in all their variety and individuality come alive with penetrating humanness, while the effect of the storytelling is intensified by a lean, understated style and made more poignant by touches of lyrical sensitivity."--The Horn Book

"This is fine writing, and readers will be moved by the intense drama of individual scenes and by their historical significance."--School Library Journal

"A vivid, complex, carefully crafted, moving novel."--Children's Book Review Service

"The Logans's story will strengthen and satisfy all who read it."--The Christian Science Monitor