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Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D Taylor (view source)
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|title=Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry
|author=Mildred D Taylor
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|pages=320
|publisher=Puffin Books
|date=May 25, 1995
|isbn=0140366253
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It is a long walk to school, through miles of dirty, unyielding red Mississippi dust in the warm months, and through miles of dirtier, even more unyielding red Mississippi mud in the rainy ones. It is the first day of the school year, and in honour of that Cassie Logan and her brothers Stacey, Christopher-John and Little Man are wearing their Sunday clothes. It is an impossible feat to stay clean, especially when the school bus taking the white children to school makes a daily sport of speeding up as it passes them, spewing clouds of red dust, or waves of red mud which cover them from head to foot unless they leap into the undergrowth on the side of the path. And even that makes them filthy. Cassie, her brothers and their friend, TJ, don't have a school bus, because they are black, and they go to the school for black children.
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|name=blahblah
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|comment= beautiful... JUST BEAUTIFUL!!!
love it
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|name=lady
|verb=bird hodan said
|comment= i think this is an outstanding book and very true. these stuff still happens in every day life and i think it is important for someone to learn about the racial discrimination black people faced during their lifetime.
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{{comment
|name=fallen
|verb=said
|comment= this book is absolutely wonderful and is a very good book to learn from regarding all the issues about black and whites!
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{{comment
|name=untarnishedSOUL
|verb=said
|comment= Roll of Thunder did catch my attention when i forst read it. And it is a really good luck from the blacks' perspective. I think anyone who love this should go and read To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee because it encompasses the black and white rivalry that appeared in this book as well as society.They are both similair in the way that they have adopted a young female child as thier mouthpieces. However, i love this book any how.
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