The Logans worry the men will target her family because of their bus prank. Later, they hear that a party of White men is going after more Black families. The bus becomes stuck in the trench, damaging it. The bus driver from the White school intentionally splashes mud on the Logans, and Stacey devises a plan: the Logan children dig a trench in the road, which fills with rainwater. David decides that his family will no longer shop at the local Wallace store, as they are likely responsible for the attack on the Berrys. Morrison, who is to help protect the Logans’ home. Cassie’s father, David, returns home from his job working on the railroad with Mr. One of the friends, T.J., tells the Logans that White men set fire to three members of the Berry family. The group must dodge a school bus carrying White students to the better-funded Jefferson Davis School. She and her three brothers-Stacey, Christopher John, and Little Man-walk to the Great Faith Elementary and Secondary School for Black students along a dusty road with their friends. In 1933, 9-year-old narrator Cassie Logan lives with her family in rural Mississippi.
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