Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

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What makes the walk to school each day difficult for the children? What makes the walk worth the effort for them? Chapters 2 or 3?

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The walk to school is long and dusty. When it rains heavily, however, they are forced to walk through the mud, and they have to navigate the gullies. It doesn't help that the white school bus never pays attention to their presence and regularly covers then with dust and even mud.

Little Man turned around and watched saucer-eyed as a bus bore down on him spewing clouds of red dust like a huge yellow dragon breathing fire. Little Man headed toward the bank, but it was too steep. He ran frantically along the road looking for a foothold and, finding one, hopped onto the bank, but not before the bus had sped past enveloping him in a scarlet haze while laughing white faces pressed against the bus windows.

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Taylor, Mildred D.. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics) (Logans Book 4) (p. 13). Penguin Young Readers Group. Kindle Edition.

Papa sat very quietly while the Laniers and the Averys talked, studying them with serious eyes. Finally, he took the pipe from his mouth and made a statement that seemed to the boys and me to be totally disconnected with the conversation. “In this family, we don’t shop at the Wallace store.”
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