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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a 1976 novel by Mildred D. Taylor. The novel won the 1977 Christopher Nugent Newbery Medal^[1] and is considered to be among the greatest children's novels of all time. ¹ Its sequel, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, was released in 1981.