Annal:2002 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
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Results of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction in the year 2002. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
- Children's books
- Children's authors
- Young Adult books
- Young Adult authors
The Land: Book 1 of Logan Family
- 2002 CS King-Author winner
- 2002 Scott O'Dell winner
- 2001 LATimes–Young Adult winner
- Score: 30.52
Millions of fans have followed the Logan family in their seven-book series. Living in the South in the not-so-distant past, the Logans are the only black family to own farmland, while most of their black neighbors are sharecroppers on white-owned land. But where did this valuable legacy come from?
The story begins with Paul-Edward Logan, grandfather of Cassie Logan, the beloved protagonist of Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Born during the Civil War, Paul-Edward is the son of a white plantation owner and a former slave. Though not an unusual heritage, his upbringing is. Paul-Edward’s white father sees to it that he and his sister have many of the privileges their white half-brothers enjoy. But at fourteen, Paul-Edward runs away to seek his fortune. His story is filled with exciting, sometimes heart-breaking adventures, and what is most amazing, his dream of land-ownership, almost impossible for a black person to accomplish in the post-Civil War South, becomes reality.
The Land, like all the books in this award-winning series, is based on the experiences of the Taylor family, bringing historical truth and power to this awe-inspiring story.
