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. (Ages 12 and older)