Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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Series: Multicultural Stories, Black History + Stories
Genres: Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction
Tags: Ages 12 & Up, Ages 8-12, Award Winners
Publisher: Puffin Books
Publication Year: 2004
ASIN: 0142401129
ISBN: 0142401129

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.

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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.

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

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