“ Cassie Logan is a girl with a lot to comprehend. With her daddy gone on the railroad and Mr. Granger constantly bugging Big Ma, her grandma, to sell the cotton land back to him. Walking to school and back is even a challenge. The bus driver for the white kids chases them and forces them to dive into the woods. Sitting in class all caked with dirt can’t be fun, but there’s nothing they can do about it. If you think that is bad wait, even worse things happen.
Cassie, Big Ma, and Cassie’s brother Stacey, go into town. Cassie, after having a look around is on the way back to the wagon, they don’t own a car, and accidentally bumps Lillian Jean. Lillian Jean thinks that because she’s white, can pick on Cassie. Unfortunately Lillian Jean’s father sees what happened to Lillian Jean and when Cassie doesn't apologize, he takes matters into his own hands. Cassie is heart broken, but she has a plan to take care of Lillian Jean. Meanwhile, a friend of Stacey, TJ, is caught cheating on a test and tells the people who can heart Cassie’s mom, TJ’s teacher. Mr. Granger and some other officials come in and fire Mrs. Logan for incorrect teaching. With mom home brings some comfort, especially when the Clan are riding.
Now with Mrs. Logan not having a job and daddy back home from the railroad, will the cotton fields be enough to keep the land or will the Logan’s have to go into Sharecropping like other families, and share cropping is never in favor of the workers.
I recommend this book because this book gives a very good insight of a girls split mind. She has to worry about school, family, Lillian Jean, and most of all the cotton land.
She struggles to help her family during the time of reconstruction. We’ve studied this before but never has it been clearer of what a person like Cassie feels like during this time.”
Sarah G wrote this review Wednesday, October 22 2008.
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