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The Mississippi of the 1930s is a hard place for a black child to grow up in and Cassie finds it difficult to understand why the farm means so much to her father.
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor
PB list price $12.95
Puffin (February 1997-reprint)
ISBN: 0140384510
276 pages
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This gets: a from eryka:
Terrifically wonderful tale of an African-American sharecropping family in the South during the depression, told from the perspective of 11-year-old Cassie. I read this almost 20 years ago, and it's still SO DAMN GOOD.
From the back cover:
But she begins to reach a painful understanding when she witnesses the hatred and destruction around her and learns when it is important to fight for a principle even if it brings terrible hardships.
So good you just can't stand it.
Almost that good.
Sort of good.
Generally a waste of time.
Destined for the recycler.