Cassie

Cassie
Cassie is the narrator.

She has three little brothers,Little Man who is 6,Christopher-John who is 7,and Stacey,who is 12
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They all live in Mississippi in 1933.Cassie's father owns 400 asres of land,but they are having trouble paying the taxes on the land because the price of cotton is going down.So her father goes to work for transcontinental railroad laying

Cassie's fathe r is worried that his children might not be able to live on their own land.

Look out there Cassie girl,all that belongs to you.You aint never had it like that,you aint never had to live on nobodys place but your own as long as I live and the family survives.

Its just a regular day at school until cassie hears that her class was gonna get new books.She was very happy but still would not chant a pledge sayinng that she would keep the books in good use.Then out of no where little mann asks 'could i have another book this book is dirty".Miss Crocker got angrey and had an out birst.Cassie wanted to know what was wrong wit hhim,she then she read the fron page and saw what was wrong.