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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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Overview
Mildred D. Taylor’s semi-autobiographical Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a middle grade novel first published in 1976. The novel received the 1977 John Newbery Medal and was recognized by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards. With more than 6.5 million copies in print, the novel anchors Taylor’s “Logan saga,” a series of novels about the same family. A 1978 TV movie of the novel was nominated for two Emmy Awards. This guide references the 2016 paperback edition.
Other works by this author include Let The Circle Be Unbroken, The Gold Cadillac, and The Road to Memphis.
Plot Summary
In 1933, 9-year-old narrator Cassie Logan lives with her family in rural Mississippi. She and her three brothers—Stacey, Christopher John, and Little Man—walk to the Great Faith Elementary and Secondary School for Black students along a dusty road with their friends. The group must dodge a school bus carrying white students to the better-funded Jefferson Davis School. One of the friends, T.J., tells the Logans that white men set fire to three members of the Berry family. Cassie’s father, David, returns home from his job working on the railroad with Mr.
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