Possibly the most heart-rending story I have ever read, Roll of Thunder brought tears of both laughter and sorrow to my eyes. Growing up in Mississippi in the prejudiced years of the 1900's Cassie is a tween black girl who is completely innocent to the racism her mother and her father suffer everyday.

She goes to an all-black school, where her mother is a prominent teacher and works and plays happily back home, never dreaming how much harassment she will receive because of her colour.

When she starts to get heckled by the white children, riding by in their shiny bus while she trudges to school splashing through mud and rain, Cassie decides to take a stand. But she has yet to learn about the prejudice which ruled America in the early 1900s.

I won't write any more because I want you to read this book, and to understand how powerful it really is.

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