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For Lamb / Lesa Cline-Ransome.
Van Pelt - Notable Juvenile Books PZ7.C622812 Fo 2023
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cline-Ransome, Lesa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Interracial friendship--Juvenile fiction.
- Interracial friendship.
- Teenage girls--Juvenile fiction.
- Teenage girls.
- African American families--Juvenile fiction.
- African American families.
- Lesbian mothers--Juvenile fiction.
- Lesbian mothers.
- Jackson (Miss.)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
- Jackson (Miss.).
- Jackson (Miss.)--Race relations--History--Juvenile fiction.
- Teenage girls--Fiction.
- Interracial friendship--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Jackson (Miss.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Jackson (Miss.)--Race relations--History--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- Mississippi--Jackson.
- Genre:
- Young adult fiction.
- Fiction
- History
- Young adult works
- Historical fiction.
- Social problem fiction.
- Lesbian fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 297 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Holiday House, [2023]
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "Coretta Scott King Honor award-Winning Author"--Dust jacket.
- ISBN:
- 9780823450152
- 0823450155
- OCLC:
- 1351693120
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