Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

by Mildred D. Taylor

Reviewed by Jane Doe

Fall 2016

REVIEW: Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

ISBN#: 0142401129

THE STORY:

Cassie Logan, an African American girl, lives with her three brothers, parents, and grandmother in a rural part of the Southeast United States during the early 1930s. The 1930s were a time of deep racial segregation and economic turmoil because of the Great Depression. Throughout the book, Cassie goes through a series of events, mostly with her brothers, and realizes that black people are not treated equally as white people. She finds this situation disturbing. One particular event, took