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 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. Told with nuance and subtlety, avoiding sensationalism and unnecessary brutality, this young adult novel from celebrated author Lesa Cline-Ransome pays homage to the female victims of white supremacy. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Author: Lesa Cline-Ransome

Publisher: Holiday House

Publication Date: Jan 10, 2023

Number of Pages: 304 pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

ISBN-10: 0823450155

ISBN-13: 9780823450152