For Lamb /

"An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who...

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Main Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Holiday House, [2023]
Edition:First Edition.
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Summary:"An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north--if only he could curb his impulsiveness and rebellious nature. Lamb herself is a quiet and studious girl. She is also naive. As she tentatively accepts the friendly overtures of a white girl who loans her a book she loves, she sets a off a calamitous series of events that pulls in her mother, charming hustler uncle, estranged father, and brother, and ends in a lynching"--
Item Description:"Coretta Scott King Honor award-Winning Author"--Dust jacket.
Physical Description:297 pages ; 22 cm
Audience:Ages: 14-18.
Grades: 9-12.
ISBN:9780823450152
0823450155