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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
This is an extraordinarily moving novel -- one you will not easily forget. Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, it is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence. It is a story of physical survival, but more important, it is a story of the survival of the human spirit. And, too, it is Cassie's story -- Cassie Logan, an independent girl raised by a family for whom independence is primary, a...
Author
Series
Logan family volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
This book is a companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. It is a frightening and turbulent time for the Logan family. First, their friend T.J. must go on trial for murder -- and confront an all-white jury. Then, Cousin Suzella tries to pass for white, with humiliating consequences. And when Cassie's neighbor, Mrs. Lee Annie, stands up for her right to vote, she and her family are driven from their home. Other neighbors are destroyed...
Author
Series
Logan family saga volume 5
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee River.
Author
Series
(Virginia C.).Logan family volume 4th
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Description
"Cassie Logan, first met in Song of the Trees and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated...
