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Author:

Taylor, Mildred D., author.

Title:

Roll of thunder, hear my cry / by Mildred D. Taylor ; introduction by Jacqueline Woodson.

Edition:

40th anniversary special edition.
Large print edition.

Publisher:

Thorndike Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

363 pages (large print) : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 23 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Depressions--1929--Fiction.
Mississippi--History--20th century--Fiction.
Southern States--Race relations--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Large type books.
Large print books for youth.

Other Authors:

Woodson, Jacqueline, writer of introduction.

Notes:

Photographs on endpapers. The 40th Anniversary special edition includes an introduction by Jacqueline Woodson, and author's notes and a "Logan family tree" before the text. Following the text is "Mildred D. Taylor's family album" including some of the author's family photographs. The text of the novel is otherwise identical to the original edition.

Summary:

A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.

Series:

Logan family ; #2.

ISBN:

1432849255
9781432849252

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1012615746

LCCN:

2017055087

Locations:

SPPE104 -- Independence Public Library (Independence)

GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)

HRPE845 -- Sioux Center Public Library (Sioux Center)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)