Carolyn L. Streets
Peña Matt De la, and Christian Robinson. Last Stop on Market Street. Puffin, 2017.
This book highlights perspectives on segregation. Students reading this text will be able to make connections to similar issues in Roll of Thunder.
Latta, Susan M. Reconstruction Era. ABDO Publishing, 2014.
This book is student friendly and presents the Reconstruction Era in a way that brings this era in history alive for students. Students will be able to make connections between Roll of Thunder and this book.
Gates, Henry Louis, and Tonya Bolden. Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow. Scholastic Focus, 2019.
This book is about what American life was like during the Reconstruction Era and what the living conditions under Jim Crow. Students will make connections between Roll of Thunder and the era in which the novel takes place.
