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Summary: Hear my cry
Review: If you want to learn how blacks were treated, read this excellent book with action and drama. See how whites and blacks can get along, but don't take my word for it. Read it!!!
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Summary: Great book... go read it now!!!
Review: Well, if you can that is... if not, I feel very sorry for you! I had to read this book as a class novel study and it's great! Definitely one of the best I've read so far. Mildred Taylor is an excellent auhor and I especially like her style of writing and her exciting vocabulary! A lot is happening in the story, but it's amazing how she manages to blend each character's personality and all the events all together perfectly.If you can get the chance, make sure this is the first book on you list. Okay well go read it now.... (i'd rate it 6/5 stars!!!).
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Summary: makes u sleep.....zzzzzzzz.....
Review: i have 2 read this in class and let me tell u...it is mad boring. i almost fell asleep in class when we were reading it. this book defintely doesn't deserve the newbury medal. when the judges were giving the award, they were probably half asleep because they have been reading the book. i think they should just get rid of the book!!! if this book isn't 4 a skool report or anything like that....don't read it!!!
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Summary: GREAT BOOK!!
Review: Cassie's family faces a real challenge: to hold on to land in the South during the Depression. Her father works away from home and her mother works and runs the family farm. Lynne Thigpen dramatizes this excellent classic story of a black family's struggles to remain independent and proud against all obstacles.
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Summary: perfect for students grades 7-12
Review: I recently read this book and decided to incorporate it into a high school lesson. This book may have been intended for middle school students, but high school students enjoyed it and drew a great deal from it. We used the book during our "pre-depression era" unit. My students found it simple to read and easy to comprehend. Because they didn't have to struggle with it, they got a great deal out of it. I recommend this book to any parent or high school teacher who would like to give a young person something other than a "classic" to read. This, in its own way, will always be a classic in my classroom.
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Summary: Powerful book for adolescents learning about courage
Review: Mildred D. Taylor has given adolescent readers a powerful account of the Great Depression and the economic hardships it placed on many families, particularly blacks. As seen through the eyes of the Logan family, students learn about the inequalities between blacks and whites, beginning with the four Logan children being splattered by mud from a school bus that transported white children only. A further indignity occurs when the Logans are given dirty, tattered textbooks that have been discarded by the school for whites. Much of what Taylor describes in this novel packs a strong punch for adolescents. Further, to fully understand the story's context, students need to understand a good deal of U. S. history, specifically, the Great Depression, the Restoration, the sharecropping system, and segregation practices in the south during this period. Yet, teachers and students who take on the challenge will be well rewarded. Teachers and administrators in the Boston Public Schools have been so impressed by the powerful themes in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, that they have selected it as one of six core novels for sixth graders as part of the Max Warburg Courage Curriculum. The other five novels are: Taking Sides, Number the Stars, Bridge to Terabithia, So Far from the Bamboo Grove, and Maniac Magee. As with Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, each novel addresses the theme of courage--different types of courage, what it takes to act courageously, and how even small acts of courage can have enormous consequences in everyday life. As an Educational Consultant for the Courage Curriculum, I highly recommend Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Taylor does not speak down to students. Instead she presents them with genuine characters in a drama that reflects the story-telling tradition she was steeped in as a child.
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Summary: One of the best
Review: In my english class, we were assigned this book to read. Most were reading chapter by chapter. However, I was so into the book, that I decided to read the whole thing in two days. The strong plot and the great characters really brought the feeling to the book. I believe a five is a well deserved score because it was a well written book and was that I and most other people seemed to enjoy.
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Summary: The story is socially and historically significant.
Review: The story is told from the voice of a nine year old black child in Mississippi, coming of age during the Depression. Her family owns their land. Grandpa Logan, who is deceased, bought it during Reconstruction from a carpet bagger. Big Ma was born on a plantation, after slavery, and she learned the art of folk medicine while there. This story covers historical time frames that are epochs in African- American studies. The schools the children attended - "separate but equal". The books given to the black students that should have been trashed, per Lil'man's reaction. The book of poetry by Langston Hughes given as a Christmas represents the Harlem Rennessance. The nightmen (kkk) and their violent attacks. The greatest shock of Cassie's life was when she found out that whites defined her as a "Nigger". Her encounter with the store owner who served whites before he served blacks and his response to her rebellion against his actions. The store owner asked "whose little nigger is this?' This story touches the heart of the reader and causes them to become "active participants".
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Summary: Read it again and again!
Review: I read Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor years ago as a college student studying to be a teacher. Reading it again with my sixth grade students reinforced my belief that Mildred Taylor is perhaps one of the best children's authors we have today. Everyone from age 10 to 99 should read this book. The story centers around the Logan family, an African American family struggling to survive in the turmoil of the 1930's. There are many reasons I love this book. The characters are well developed and believable. We come to know Cassie Logan, the main character and narrator of the book, as she confronts the harsh realities of discrimination. Mildred Taylor created an extremely likable character of Jeremy, a white boy who rejects his own family's behavior toward the Logan family. The plot unfolds slowly, almost deliberately, to provide us with the time to prepare for the stunning climax. One of the most memorable scenes is when the Logan children visit Mr. Berry, a man badly burned by three white men simply because of the color of his skin. Mildred Taylor's description is often difficult to read and yet necessary in order to gain a better understanding of the distruction hatred causes. Although I've never felt this kind of discrimination firsthand, I am grateful to Mildred Taylor for giving me the opportunity to open my eyes to the dark realities that existed back then and indeed, still exist today. Read this book slowly, carefully and again and again. You will not be the same after reading this extraordinary novel.
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Summary: This is a GREAT book!
Review: When I was in 7th grade last year, I really didn't want to read the book. It was an assignment, but I still didn't want to. At first, I would only read the first few chapters for hours and hours. Then, one day I stayed home from school because I was sick. I read that book, and I cried for a long time after I read the last line. It is amazing how the norms have changed since the 1930's. Amazing book. I would recommend this book to anyone willing to learn and read a nice, developed book about the pain and suffering of the black people during the depression.
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