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- African American families--Juvenile fiction
- Jackson (Miss.)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction
- Jackson (Miss.)--Race relations--History--Juvenile fiction
- Friendship--Juvenile fiction
- Interracial friendship--Juvenile fiction
- Lesbian mothers--Juvenile fiction
- Lynching--Mississippi--Jackson--Juvenile fiction
- Racism--Juvenile fiction
- Teenage girls--Juvenile fiction
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| Title Statement | For Lamb / Lesa Cline-Ransome. |
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| Author | Cline-Ransome, Lesa |
| Publication | New York: Holiday House,[2023]©2023 |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Extent of Item | 297 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9780823450152 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr06767183 |
| Audience & Ratings | 014-018. Grades 9-12. |
| 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."-- |
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| By Topic | African American families--Juvenile fiction |
| African Americans--Juvenile fiction | |
| Friendship--Juvenile fiction | |
| Interracial friendship--Juvenile fiction | |
| Lesbian mothers--Juvenile fiction | |
| Lynching--Juvenile fiction--Mississippi--Jackson | |
| Racism--Juvenile fiction | |
| Teenage girls--Juvenile fiction | |
| By Location | Jackson (Miss.)--Juvenile fiction--History--20th century |
| Jackson (Miss.)--Juvenile fiction--Race relations--History | |
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