The Road to Memphis

Reader reviewed by PeaceChik

This book is so AWESome! I love it! Ever since I read the first book(Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry), I've love this author ever since.
So there's a 17 year old black girl named Cassie who lives in Mississippi right before World War 11. So anyways, her "friend" Moe just gets ticked off with these white dudes who keep messing with him. He hurts them real bad, and after that has to escape Mississippi because to hit a white man back then is ...trouble. So he gets his friends, Cassie included, with her brother Stacey, and they go to Memphis.
I love this book, its a romance, historical fiction and it's great. U have to read this booK!!!

PeAce

Reader reviewed by Someone

This is the bestestestest book in the world! I laughed, I cried, I wanted to scream at some of the characters! It really made me think how things would be if Martin Luther Kind Jr. hadn't stood up for what he believed in. I'm glad I had a chance to read this book!

Reader reviewed by Bookworm9

Seventeen-year-old Cassie Logan, spirited narrator of "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" and "Let the Circle Be Unbroken," is now living in Jackson, Mississippi, where she attends high school and dreams of going to college. But on a visit home with her brother Stacey, the siblings and their friends face further abuse from the bigoted Ameses, which eventually causes Moe to snap and lash out violently. As the whites call for his lynching, it's up to Cassie and the others to get Moe to Memphis, where he can catch a train north.

Set on the eve of World War II, Taylor again draws a true portrait of life in the deep south in which the African-American characters are faced with hardships that threaten to cost them dearly. Her characters are always strong, and the relationships between Moe and Cassie, and Stacey and Jeremy are especially touching.