Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Reader reviewed by pecker

This book was about a girl named cassie. It was time when whit people could controll black people. Or the whites had there own bathroom or facility. And the blacks had there own facility. cassie has a very big problem whith lilian Jean.(a White)And her dad is trying to kill the black people or make them loos their jobs. Also cassie's family is strugling with Mr.Granger. He is trying to take cassies land. Then Mr.Lilian Jean's dad comes to tj's house and tries to kill him because he stole a gun. Then Mr. granger sais no and tells lilians dad that there was a fire heading this way. so they all go ant try and put the fire out. So then tj does not get killed.

Reader reviewed by John

This book is about a girl named Casie in a little bit after the great depresion. Cassie has to get to school by walking and the whites bus always rolls right next to them eather getting dirt on her and her brothers when it is dry or water on them and when it is wet and since she is black she can't do anything about it. Also she lives on a farm so she has to help pick cotten. Then there are mean white people called the night men who beat up her friend T.J. then right before they killed T.J. her father set the cotten field on fire so they went to the cotten field so it would not burn down the forest.

Reader reviewed by Taylor/ Mrs.Fleming's class

Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry was an amazing book. A book told by Casie Logan and her family trying to survive in the heat of Mississippi during 1930's.

Cassie and family bought 400 acers of land from Mr.Granger but have only managed to pay off 200 so far. Mr.Granger's grandson wants the land back and will do anything to get it. But that isn't the only problem. Cassie's brother, Stacey's friend T.J. has been having a few problems with the whites. When worst comes to worst and T.J. is tricked Cassie's dad has to do something to save him. But what will he do?

Reader reviewed by Susan/Mrs. Fleming's class

Roll of Thnder is an Ok book. It's not the best in the world though. The book is about an African-American family the Logans. The main focuse is on Cassie. The other characters are Christopher-John, Little man, Stacey, theie mom, grandma, and various other people. In the begining the book seems really boring. but it really starts to heat up around chapter 5. If you have an interest in historic fiction, then you might like this book

Reader reviewed by Alexis/Fleming class

I think this book was very interesting because when you start reading it, it is almost like you don't want to put it down until you're done. It also doesn't leave you hanging at the end. I think this is a great book to read because it kind of tells you about how life use to be as a black person living in segregation. That is why I think Roll Of Thunder Hear, My Cry is an interesting.

Reader reviewed by Amira

Roll of thunder, hear my cry takes place in 1933 in Mississippi. It is about the Logans family, they are very nice people all except for one thing they are black. Being black in Mississippi
in 1933 was a very bad thing because blacks were
treated very badly. The Logans are Cassie, Stacey, Chistopher - John, Little Man, Big Ma (Grandmother), David(The Father), Mary (The Mother),and Uncle Hammer. Mr.Logan brings Mr.Morrison to his home because when Mr.Morrison was working on the railroad he got in a fight with some white men. The white men got Mr.Morrison fired but the white men did not get fired, see what I mean Mississippi was just not a great place to live in.

Reader reviewed by Riley/fFleming class

Roll of thunder, hear my cry is a great book with interesting new words that just want to make you open up a million dictionaries and look up all the interesting words in the book.The word I think is most interesting is the word clinged, I just love that word especailly loved how the author used the word.

Reader reviewed by Kasey Hall/ Mrs. Flemings Class

This book is a good book about a family in the great depression. At the end of the book you end up feel ing bad for the family because they go through a lot of thing that arent to good.

The characters are pretty cool because they all have a different personality.Little Man,(is a neat freak)Cassie,(shes stobbern)T.J.,(bad influence)

Reader reviewed by Lisa , Mrs. Fleming

This book is takes place in Mississippi in 1933 and when the blacks and the whites goes to seprate school. The min character is Cassie Logan. Her mom is a teacher, but gets fired by Granger Harlan. T.J. Avery cheated in a history test and slipped the cheat sheet into Stacey Logan's desk when Ms. Logan came. Stacey got wipped and was really mad at T.J.

T.J. steals a purl pistol he always wanted from a store Mr. Barnett owns. It was really Melvin, and R.W. Avery's idea.When they were caught by Mr. Barnett the white kid killed Mr. Barnett and when T.J. said he was going home they beat him up. That late night, the Walleces came and took T.J., however there was a fire and Mr. Granger told all of them to stop the fire. The fire was really made by David Logan, dad of Cassie, and Mr. Morrison.

Cassie and her brothers, Stacey; Little Man; and Christopher - Jhon, never liked T.J. that much, but she cried in the end because he went to the Jail, even though he didn't kill Mr. Barnett. He was put into the chain Gang and he probably will die was what the dad told them.

Reader reviewed by Kayleigh/ Mrs. Flemings Class

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a book that takes place in Mississippi in 1933. It is about a nine-year-old girl named Cassie Logan who gets angry when people treat her differently because she is black. Growing up, it is hard for Cassie to watch white children get better things than her. For example, her school, Great Faith, is for black children. Most of the time black schools didn't even get books, But when they do they are used an all beat up. There are even bad words for black people written in them. There are also good things that happens in her life like having loving parents and three brothers!