The title of my book is “Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry”.  It is written by Mildred D. Taylor.  The main character in this book is an 11 year-old African-American girl called Cassie Logan.  She lives in Southern America in the 1930s. Life back then was a lot different then life is today, in 2016. Race equality is a lot better now, even though it still isn’t completely gone. But life back then  wasn’t  like that. For some people of color, like Cassie’s family, it was just the way life was. For some white people, that was the way life was and that was the way it always would be. Most white people loved the way they were living. They could order African-Americans around and do what the wanted to them without having anything happen to themselves.

 

If an African-American dared to do something to a white person the could be sent to jail, or worse, killed. If an accident happened, and someone slipped and fell onto a white person, there would be bad punishments.

 

If an African American person was walking down the street and accidentally touched a white person, they were supposed to apologize and walk in the road. White people would always get privileges, to be served first, get first pick of something, or anything else. Cassie does not like this. She wants to take a stand. For Cassie, her parents, her brothers, her friends, everyone, everyone in the whole wide world.  But no one will help her or back her up. Which is why, when she bumped into Lillian Jean Simms (a white girl that was mean to Cassie) it went something like this. “Big Ma gazed at me, fear in her eyes, then back at the growing crowd. “She jus’ a child-” “Tell her Aunty-” Big Ma looked at me again, her voice cracking as she spoke. “Go on child… apologize.” “But, Big Ma-” Her voice hardened. “Do like I say.” I swallowed hard. “Go on!” “I’m sorry,” I mumbled. “I’m sorry, Miz Lillian Jean,” demanded Mr Simms. “Big Ma!” I balked. “Say it child.” A painful tear slid down my cheek and my lips trembled. “I’m sorry… M- Miz… Lillian Jean.

 

I enjoyed this book a lot. I enjoyed this book because it taught me about American history, the main character Cassie was very interesting, she had a lot of different character traits, and because it’s a sad book the happy things are happier and bring more spirit to the book. I would recommend this book to someone who wants to learn about American history from a fictional story, so someone who wants a made up story about something true that happened in Americas past. I would rate this book five out of five stars! (Five being spectacular one being awful.) I hope you enjoyed this book review!