'We have no choice of what colour we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.' 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. ...
This is a sequel to the universally acclaimed "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry", continuing in the story of the Logan family in Mississippi during the Depression. The children, especially Cassie, are happy in their warm, stable family but outside is a climate of fear and tension. Their friend T.J. goes on trial for murder and stands before an all ...
In this sequel to ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY and LET THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN, it's 1941 and African American Cassie Logan is now a 17-year-old high school student eagerly anticipating attending college. Living in Jackson, Mississippi with her brother and friends, Cassie must confront the racism and hostility of the white community.
This prequel to ROLLING THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY is set just after the end of the American Civil War and tells the story of Cassie Logan's grandfather, Paul-Edward Logan. Named one of the Best Children's Books 2001 by Publishers Weekly and a 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist in the Young Adult Fiction category.
Each morning Cassie Logan opens her bedroom window to listen to the sound of the trees that surround her family's house. What everyone else thinks is just the wind, Cassie knows is really the trees singing to her. When the Depression forces Cassie's father to go far from home to look for work, a cruel businessman takes advantage of Cassie's ...
Ten-year-old Jeremy Simms, who also appears in "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry," narrates this story of racism in pre-Civil Rights era Mississippi. On a cold wintery day, both black and white people line up to take a bus. When the bus is full, the black passengers are ordered off to make room for the whites still standing in line. As the bus travels ...
Daddy and Mother-Dear travel from Ohio to Mississippi in a brand-new gold Cadillac and discover the anger and prejudice evoked by blacks owning such a fancy car.
Cassie Logan and her brothers, from such books as ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY and THE ROAD TO MEMPHIS, witness a horrible racist confrontation in this novella set in 1933. Mr. Tom Bee, an elderly black man, is the victim of racial violence when he calls a white shopkeeper by his first name, despite the fact that the shopkeeper had given him ...
Set in the early 1900s, this is a prequel to "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry". David and Hammer are young boys when all the wells in town go dry except theirs. The Logan family shares their water with all their neighbors regardless of race, but one white boy, Charlie Simms, still harasses the family.
Two short novels are together here, both dealing with prejudice in the South. In "The Friendship", Cassie Logan from "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" narrates the story of kind, old black man named Tom Bee, who addresses his old friend, a white storekeeper, by his first name, and the outrage and violence his action creates. In "The Gold Cadillac", ...
Set in the early 1900s, this is a prequel to "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry". David and Hammer are young boys when all the wells in town go dry except theirs. The Logan family shares their water with all their neighbors regardless of race, but one white boy, Charlie Simms, still harasses the family.
Two short novels are together here, both dealing with prejudice in the South. In "The Friendship", Cassie Logan from "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" narrates the story of kind, old black man named Tom Bee, who addresses his old friend, a white storekeeper, by his first name, and the outrage and violence his action creates. In "The Gold Cadillac", ...
Ages 10 and up.In the deep south of the 1930s and early 40s, Cassie Logan and her family stand together and stand proud to defy racial prejudice and violence. Now, to commemorate Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry's 20th anniversary, the unforgettable saga of the Logan family is available in a boxed set--Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Let the Circle Be ...
A collection of three short stories by the author of "Roll of Thunder" and "Hear My Cry". Drawing on memories of her own childhood, and on stories told by her father, the author recreates the experiences of black children growing up in America in the years immediately before and after World War II.
Two short novels are together here, both dealing with prejudice in the South. In "The Friendship", Cassie Logan from "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" narrates the story of kind, old black man named Tom Bee, who addresses his old friend, a white storekeeper, by his first name, and the outrage and violence his action creates. In "The Gold Cadillac", ...
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