Roll of thunder, hear my cry
(Large Print)

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.

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

Accelerated Reader Level 5.7.

Newbery Medal, 1977.