ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY

What makes the land significant to Cassie's family? One tumultuous year—the year of the night riders and the fires, the year a white girl publicly shames Cassie solely for being black—reveals to Cassie that the Logan family's lifeblood depends on having a place of their own. The land provides the Logans with their strength and dignity—regardless of how others may belittle them, the Logans hold something that can never be taken from them.