Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

 273 paged Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, written by Mildred D. Taylor, describes a young girl's journey when living in the early 1900s. Being African American, she, her family, and her community are discriminated, humiliated, and even torchered by people with light skin. Cassie sometimes wonders, and becomes angry to what her community is treated like, and what others call "her kind." The only thing holding Cassie's family together is the land that they own. No one can take their land away, for it shows that Cassie actually has a place of her own, and this gives Cassie's family courage and pride. When things turn for worse, Cassie knows there is still hope.