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 cannot re...

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Main Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Holiday House, [2023]
Edition:First Edition.
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264 4 |c Ã2023 
300 |a 297 pages ;  |c 22 cm 
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500 |a "Coretta Scott King Honor award-Winning Author"--Dust jacket. 
520 |a "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"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
521 |a Ages: 14-18. 
521 |a Grades: 9-12. 
650 0 |a Interracial friendship  |v Young adult fiction. 
650 0 |a Teenage girls  |v Young adult fiction. 
650 0 |a African American families  |v Young adult fiction. 
650 0 |a Lesbian mothers  |v Young adult fiction. 
651 0 |a Jackson (Miss.)  |x History  |y 20th century  |v Young adult fiction. 
651 0 |a Jackson (Miss.)  |x Race relations  |x History  |v Young adult fiction. 
650 0 |a African Americans  |v Young adult fiction. 
655 7 |a Historical fiction  |v Young adult.  |2 local 
655 7 |a Social problem fiction  |v Young adult.  |2 local 
655 7 |a Lesbian fiction  |v Young adult.  |2 local 
655 7 |a Queer fiction  |v Young adult.  |2 local 
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