Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by: Mildred D. Taylor (Multicultural)

The Logan family is an African American family living in a town where racial injustices are high. They try hard to keep their land, but fear it being taken away due to the money they owe to the bank. The Logan children are made fun of by white children, and are harassed when they go into their local grocery store. Their black community fears their lives when a few white boys burn three African American men, and a lynch mob starts to parade the town. With racial tensions high, the Logan family must stick together to endure it.

This would be a wonderful multicultural read aloud to "talk back" to. There are a lot of specific "WOW" instances that happen in the book. In order to allow the students to analyze and absorb all of these instances, I would stop at a specific event, and have the students "talk back" to the character that the event is happening to. Then I would have the students share their thoughts and feelings, and what they would say to that character.