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Penguin Young Readers Group, 2004-12-04

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Puffin Modern Classics

Mildred D Taylor, Author

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9780142401125

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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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With lyrical prose and searing honesty, this powerful novel gives voice to dignity, resistance, and familial strength in the face of injustice. It prompts reflection, demands empathy, and honors the legacy of those who held fast to truth.

Keywords and Themes: African American & Black • Award Winner • Classics • Conviction • Courage • Dignity • Empathy • Family • Heritage • Historical • Integrity • Justice • Juvenile Fiction • Perseverance • Prejudice & Racism • Responsibility • Social Themes • United States - 20th Century

Readability • 5.7

Age Range • 10-0

Pages • 276

Subjects • African Americans • Logan family (Fictitious characters: Taylor) • Prejudices • Mississippi • Race relations • Depressions • 1929

Categories • Juvenile Fiction | Classics • Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Prejudice & Racism • Juvenile Fiction | African American & Black • Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century

Winner of the Newbery Medal, this remarkably moving novel has impressed the hearts and minds of millions of readers.

Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice. And it is also Cassie's story--Cassie Logan, an independent girl who discovers over the course of an important year why having land of their own is so crucial to the Logan family, even as she learns to draw strength from her own sense of dignity and self-respect.

* "[A] vivid story.... Entirely through its own internal development, the novel shows the rich inner rewards of black pride, love, and independence."--Booklist, starred review

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