Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)
The Mississippi of the 1930s was a hard place for a black child to grow up in, but still Cassie didn't understand why farming his own land meant so much to her father. During that year, though, when the night riders were carrying hatred and destruction among her people, she learned about the...
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The Mississippi of the 1930s was a hard place for a black child to grow up in, but still Cassie didn't understand why farming his own land meant so much to her father. During that year, though, when the night riders were carrying hatred and destruction among her people, she learned about the great differences that divided them.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141333342 (0141333340)
Publish date: 2003
Publisher: Puffin Books
Pages no: 308
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Cultural,
Read For School,
Realistic Fiction,
Juvenile,
Historical Fiction,
Middle Grade,
African American
Series: Logans (#4)
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...
"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...
I really enjoyed this book. It felt very real. Fiction or no, the events in this book could actually have happened. I liked Cassie, though I didn't like everything that she did. The ending was stressful as well. Books need to have a climax, and then wrap up. This book had a climax, and a good one at...
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