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So I have trouble reading books with injustice in them. There's just so much in the world that when it crops up in my fiction I have a tough time handling it (it's why I had to stop reading Front Desk by Kelly Yang, I just had this overwhelming feeling of dread that her family was going to be taken ...
This book is part of a several book series on the Logan family. The book takes place during The Great Depression in the deep south. It is about an African American family and their struggle against racism. The main character, Cassie, has to learn the "do's" and "don'ts" that society requires. Becaus...
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor Paperback, 304 pages Published November 27th 2001 by Puffin Books (first published October 1976) ISBN: 0140384510 (ISBN13: 9780140384512) Great story to share with kids nowadays. Set in the rural south in the US, the stories follow 1 family, from th...
My thanks to Galley Beggar Press for my copy of this short story collection. This collection of fifteen short stories from novelist and essayist D J Taylor written over a number of years. Indeed the year when the story was written is given in the book. The stories cover a number of different scena...
"Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry" is about three black children living in the segregated south during the Great Depression. This story looks at racism and how these children overcome the cruelty through the strength they find in each other and their family. I would use this in fifth or sixth grade to lo...