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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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Holiday House,
[2023]
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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"-- |
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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 |