Book
2 of 2 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: Teen Collection
- OSHTEMO: Teen Collection
For Lamb
Call Number
- FICTION CLIN TEEN (CEN, OSH)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Holiday House, [2023]
Physical Description
297 pages ; 21 cm.
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."--
Subjects
- Interracial friendship > Juvenile fiction.
- Teenage girls > Juvenile fiction.
- African American families > Juvenile fiction.
- Lesbian mothers > Juvenile fiction.
- Teenage girls > Fiction.
- Interracial friendship > Fiction.
- African Americans > Fiction.
- Jackson (Miss.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
- Jackson (Miss.) > Race relations > History > Juvenile fiction.
- Jackson (Miss.) > History > 20th century > Fiction.