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...
| Main Author: | Cline-Ransome, Lesa (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
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 |
| Author Notes: |
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