Owning their own land has always been important to Cassie's family ever since her grandparents were able to purchase some. Cassie knew how hard her father worked to make sure they kept it but she didn't truly understand it until this year. For the time when she accompanied her grandmother to town and was pushed and embarrassed but made to apologize to a white girl for the incident. For the black families who were set on fire by the night riders. For the black families who reside on white land and know they can lose it at any time for any reason.
Cassie now understands why having their own land is so important.
Read and studied with my 7th grader. Again, I feel books like this are good to help point out that these are the experiences of others in America, the experiences that are all too often barely mentioned, if at all, in the history books.
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