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.
