Roll of thunder, hear my cry
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Roll of thunder, hear my cry
AUTHOR:
Taylor, Mildred D.
ISBN:
9780141333342
PUBLICATION_INFO:
London : Puffin, 2011.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
305 p. ; 20 cm
SERIES:
Puffin modern classics
Puffin modern classics.
SERIES_TITLE:
Puffin modern classics
Puffin modern classics.
GENERAL_NOTE:
Originally published: U.S.: Dial, 1976; London: Gollancz, 1977.
ABSTRACT:
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.
SUBJECT:
| African Americans -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Logan family (Fictitious characters : Taylor) -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Mississippi -- Race relations -- Juvenile fiction. |
BIBSUMMARY:
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.