Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
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(Hardcover - 25th Anniversary Edition)
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
- Pub. Date: January 2001
- ISBN-13: 9780803726475
- Sales Rank: 130,998
- Age Range: 8 to 12
- 296pp
- Series: Logan Family Series
- Edition Description: 25th Anniversary Edition
- Edition Number: 25
Synopsis
The story of one African American family fighting to stay together and strong in the face of brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s.
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A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
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Entirely through its own internal development, the novel shows the rich inner rewards of black pride, love, and independence.
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Mildred D. Taylor is the author of eight previous novels and has garnered such awards a Newbery Medal, three Coretta Scott King Awards, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book award. She received her Master of Arts degree from the University of Colorado's School of Journalism and went on to work as a proofreader-editor program coordinator for an international house and a community free school. She now devotes her time to her family, writing, and what she terms the "family ranch" in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
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You don't want to hang on to this book!by Anonymous
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October 03, 2008: It?s down in the dreaded south in 1940, and Cassie wishes that her school had a bus, and that the Jefferson Davis school bus would stop splattering her and her brothers with mud, or she didn?t have to apologize to ?Miz? Lillian Jean. Things go from excellent to shocking fast but from shocking to horrifying faster!!!!!! Will they be able to hold on to their land, that they owned as far back as big Ma could remember? Or will they lose it in the battle for justice? I think that Mildred D. Taylor did an excellent job representing what it was like back in 1940?s for a big family like the Logan?s. And it 100% deserved the Newberry Medal that it won.
Amazing!by Anonymous
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March 05, 2008: I love this book! Mildred D. Taylor is an amazing author! This book had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. I love how each character had their own personality. Cassie, such a brave little girl, does the impossible for her time. Stacey, the eldest of the Logan children, does the same. But, more brave, smarter, and acts like an adult. Christopher-John is always protesting to go places. He follows and obeys his mom. Little Man is the youngest of the Logan family. He's always trying to be like Cassie or Stacey. This book made me laugh, cry, and have every possible emotion there is!!! I love it and you will, too!
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