For Lamb / Lesa Cline-Ransome.
"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." -- Publisher's website.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780823450152
- ISBN: 0823450155
- Physical Description: 297 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Holiday House, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes biographical references. |
Search for related items by subject
Genre: | Young adult fiction. Historical fiction. Fiction. History. Young adult works. |
Available copies
- 12 of 12 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 2 of 2 copies available at Cass County.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 12 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Cass County Library-Harrisonville | YA CLI 2023 (Text) | 0002206020626 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | YA CLI 2023 (Text) | 0002206020634 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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." --