Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Penguin Random House Children's UK)

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is the classic story of a girl growing up in the deep South. '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.

Mildred D. Taylor was born in Mississippi and grew up in Ohio. She worked in Ethiopia with the Peace Corps before enrolling at the School of Journalism at the University of Colorado, where she helped develop a Black Studies programme.She is best-known for her Newbery Medal winner, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

Mildred D. Taylor still lives in Colorado. Also available in A Puffin Book: Goodnight Mister Tom and Back Home aby Michelle Magorian; Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little And The Trumpet Of The Swan aby E.

B. White; The Borrowers aby Mary Norton; Stig Of The Dump żeby Clive King; Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry żeby Mildred D. Taylor; A Dog So Small aby Philippa Pearce; Gobbolino aby Ursula Moray Williams; Carrie's War aby Nina Bawden; Mrs Frisby and The Rats Of Nimh by Richard C O'brien; A Wrinkle In Time żeby Madeleine L'engle; The Cay żeby Theodore Taylor; Tarka The Otter aby Henry Williamson; Watership Down by Richard Adams; Smith by Leon Garfield; The Neverending Story aby Michael Ende; Annie by Thomas Meehan; and The Family From One End Street by Eve Garnett.