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Author Taylor, Mildred D.

Title Roll of thunder, hear my cry / Mildred D. Taylor ; frontispiece by Jerry Pinkney
Published New York : Dial Press, [1976]
©1976

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 MELB CRC  82J TAY-R  AVAILABLE
Description 276 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Series Plus fiction
+ Plus fiction.
Summary A black family living in the South during the 1930's are faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand
Notes Awarded the Newbery Medal for 1977
For adolescents
Sequel: Let the circle be unbroken
Audience For children
Notes Accelerated Reader Middle Grade 5.7 10.0 Kilgore Intermediate
Newbery medal winner, 1977
Subject African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
African Americans -- Race identity -- Juvenile fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction.
Discrimination -- Juvenile fiction.
Logan family (Fictitious characters : Taylor) -- Fiction.
Logan family (Fictitious characters : Taylor) -- Juvenile fiction.
Newbery Medal.
Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction.
Racism -- Juvenile fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
African American children -- Fiction.
African American families -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
African American girls -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction.
Determination (Personality trait) -- Fiction.
Discrimination -- Fiction.
Familial love -- Fiction
Logan, Cassie (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Prejudices -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Racism -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
Rural families -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
Nineteen thirties -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Mississippi -- Race relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115909 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Southern States -- Race relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111476 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Southern States -- Race relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111476 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Mississippi -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85086192 -- 20th century -- Fiction
Mississippi -- Race relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115909 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Southern States -- Race relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111476 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Genre/Form Fiction.
Author Pinkney, Jerry, illustrator
LC no. 76002287
ISBN 0140311297 (Puffin Books)
0140366253 (Puffin)
0553204440 (Bantam Books)
0575023848 (Victor Gollancz)
0803774737