Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Award-winning by Mildred Delois Taylor (author) and David Kearney (illustrator) (UK edition)

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is the classic story of a girl growing up in the deep South. Set in Mississippi at the height of the American Depression, this is the story of a family’s struggle to maintain their integrity, pride and independence against the forces of a cruelly racist society.

‘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. 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, and when it was worth fighting for a principle even if it brought terrible hardships.

Winner of the highly prestigious John Newbery Medal in the USA in 1977.

Product Details

Catalogue number

9071 in Schools Catalogue 2024–25 and 476 in ROW Teen March 2024

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780141354873

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Date published

July 3rd, 2014

Other details

368 pages

Condition

New

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