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ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY PUFFIN MODERN CLASSICS by MILDRED D TAYLOR
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Puffin Modern Classics Ser.
'Everybody born on this earth is something,' Cassie's mother tells her, 'and nobody, no matter what colour, is better than anybody else.' But Mississippi in the 1930s is a harsh place for a young black girl. To assert her equality would be to endanger family and friends. Growing up, Cassie learns the tr ...Show more
Rock and Roll Is Life: The True Story of the Helium Kids by One Who Was There by D. J. Taylor
Category: Fiction
'Taylor's magnificent new novel is Spinal Tap for literary types . . . thoroughly entertaining, knowledgeable romp through the fear and loathing of rock's golden age. Beautifully written and consistently funny, it is also a poignant account of one man's search for his own identity' Mail on Sunday 'A da ...Show more
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Cassie didn't understand why farming his own land meant so much to her father. During that year, in the 1930s, when the night riders carried destruction among her people, she learned that it was worth fighting for a principle even if it brought terrible hardships.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor and David Kearney (illustrator)
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
'We have no choice of what colour we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here'. The Mississippi of the 1930s was a hard place for a black child to grow up in, but still Cassie didn't understand why farming ...Show more
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Category: Young Adult
Rebel Voices is a new six-part Puffin Classics collection of strikingly designed, highly collectible books, written by female authors, and celebrating courage, rebellion, strength and inspiration.There are things you can't back down on, things you gotta take a stand on. But it's up to you to decide what ...Show more
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics) by Mildred D. Taylor
Category: Classic
A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime. Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and child-friendly endnotes. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is the classic story of a girl growing u ...Show more
Sally and the Magical Sneeze by Simon Taylor; A. D. Lester (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books
Sally is home sick, feeling sad and lonely, but one magical sneeze changes everything. Suddenly, a rainbow horse spews from her lips! With each sneeze, a new magical creature appears, from a cow wearing Christmas lights to a bear on a bike. Swept up in this magical moment, Sally doesn't feel so sick any ...Show more
Secondhand Daylight by D.J. Taylor
Category: Fiction
It's autumn 1933, and for once struggling writer James Ross seems to have fallen on his feet. Not only has the Labour Exchange fixed him up with a day-job collecting rents in Soho, but friendly Mr Samuelson is employing him front-of-house in the Toreador night-club. Even his melancholy love-life is look ...Show more
Thackeray by D. J. Taylor
Category: Biography
"Vanity Fair", published in serial parts in 1847-8, made William Makepeace Thackeray famous 'all but at the top of the tree', he told his mother, 'and having a great fight up there with Dickens'. This title shows that Thackeray was a complex man, acutely sensitive to criticism and fearful of the publici ...Show more
The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
Category: Children's
Paul-Edward is the son of a wealthy white plantation owner and a former slave mother. Though his heritage is not unusual, for it is the time of the American Civil War, his upbringing is quite different to other black children. His father makes sure that he and his sister enjoy many of the same privilege ...Show more