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[maeve66]

Next up, one of the best historical YAF authors I know -- she reminds me of Laurence Yep, in fact, partly because it's her interest in her own family history and its intersection with American history that motivates her writing. I very much like that motivation.

The first Mildred D. Taylor novel I read was definitely Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

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[shanrina]

We have a copy of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry somewhere in the house. It was my mother's, actually--she used to do freelance work when I was a kid, and she spent some time writing educational guides about various books to be used in schools. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry was one of them. She never really showed the guides to me, though, so I don't have a good idea of what she actually put in them. It sounds interesting, though, so I might have to see if I can find it now.

[maeve66]

That's so funny. I own a teacher's guide for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. I wonder if it's your mother's? Who did she write for? This, I am pretty sure, is for the Teacher's Curriculum Institute, which is a quite excellent source of curriculum material, located in Palo Alto, CA. They've moved on from teaching guides like those, though, to actually publishing textbooks, having seen the way the wind was blowing -- e.g. boxed curricula, not teacher-cobbles-together-interesting-units. I liked doing the latter, but it is Very Frowned Upon, these days.

[shanrina]

I *think* she worked for Troll, or at least that's what she always called it. We're nowhere near California, but she worked from home and mailed her stuff in so I think the company could have been based anywhere.