Roll of thunder is about the logan family. This book is back in the 1900's on a farm. The logan family is fighting for their rites against the white folks in town. At the end of the book a boy named T.J robbed a store with two white boys and the Berry's saw T.J, then reported him. After that people cameby and beat him up then sadly at the end he gets hung.

This book was pretty good. I liked the way they show how it really was back in the days and say how hard it was to get along with each other.This book also makes you be thankful those days are over. That is what i like about the book "Roll of Thunder,Hear me Cry". ( )

This book tells of the Logan familie and other nigros that faced the hardships during the 1930s. It all takes place in a small town in Mississippi when the Logan children (Cassie, Little Man, Christipher John, and Stacey) start school. The troulble begins on the first day when Cassie and Little Man don't take their readers because it was saved by the whites so that the black people get it when its old and dirty. Then Mr.Morrison is brout into the family by Papa so the family can be protected while he's working on the railroad so the family can pay for their 200 acer land they own. Tention rises when T.J told the Logans Mr.Berry and his nephews are burd to death by the store keepers the Wallaces. The bus for the whites torment the Logans on their way to school so they dig a hole in the road to stop them. Then T.J and Stacey get in a fight, all the Logan children get in trouble for going to the forbiden Wallace store were the fight tock place. Cassie was tormented by Mr.Simms for axidently running in to his daughter Lillian Jean in Strawberry. Also Mama lost her teaching job because the school board thought she didn't fallow the school book. Even when the family is faced with dept and Papa and Mr.Morrison are almost killed by the Wallaces, the family hold on to what they belive in and make it through. Then one night T.J and the Simms boys go and steal the pistle he wanted, all the white man belive that T.J helped kill the store owner to get it and tried to hang him. Luckly Papa started a fire in his cotton feild to stop the moob, but T.J was taken to prison in Strawberry for murder. At that moment Cassie acally cried for T.J even though she disliked him because she would never see him again.

This book is probebly the best, sadest, and the most twisted evil book I ever read. It was a piece of pure art with exelent word chouse, setting, and charater discripsion. Cassie was the most free willing girl I know and doesn't like being pushed around by whites. Mr.Morrison is very depicated person and won't leav the Logans even though the Wallaces want to kill him. I feel really bad for T.J and Mr.Berry because of how they were treated and they both didn't deserve it. I can't belived that the whites killed Mr.Berry for apparently no reason what so ever whitch is very sad. This book is also very twisted evil because the way whites treated blacks. They judge them for no reason, rid them of their land, do horrible punishments for the slip of the toung, and just plain treat them like dirt. Mr.Poppe is right, this book is disterbing. But don't let that make you turn away. This book didn't win the Newbery Medal for nothing.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a book that is set in the depression era. It portrays the struggles that an African American family undergos, and shows the unjust that was bestowed upon them.

I thought this was a very inspirational book to say the least. I was so intrigued by this book that I couldn't put it down. I felt that it portrayed that time era perfectly, and you could actually feel the characters' anguish, as well as triumphs. This book would be more appropriate for older students. I think they would love it, and it would give them a better understanding of how people were treated so unfairly during that time. This book would be a great book to tie into a historical fiction unit, and can also be read during Black History Month.

After reading this book, I would have students write a summary over the book, and include a couple of paragraphs about what they learned about the unjust in this book, and how it made them feel.