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For Lamb

For Lamb - Hardcover

by Lesa Cline-Ransome
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Availability:In StockContributor:Lesa Cline-RansomeAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2023-01-10Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Holiday HouseISBN-13:9780823450152ISBN-10:823450155UPC:9780823450152Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:Social Themes, African American & Black, LGBTQ+Book Topic:Prejudice & RacismSize:8.53 x 5.85 x 1.06 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SC64SK11GT
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 New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
A Horn Book Fanfare Book
A Booklist Editors' Choice
A CSMCL Best Multicultural Children's Book of the Year
A BookPage Best Young Adult Book of the Year
A Bank Street Best Book of the Year - Outstanding Merit
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
Language:EnglishPublisher:Holiday HouseISBN-13:9780823450152ISBN-10:823450155UPC:9780823450152Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:Social Themes, African American & Black, LGBTQ+Book Topic:Prejudice & RacismSize:8.53 x 5.85 x 1.06 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SC64SK11GT
Lesa Cline-Ransome is the author of more than twenty books for young readers including the award-winning Finding Langston trilogy. Her work has received a plethora of honors, including dozens of starred reviews, NAACP Image Award nominations, a Coretta Scott King honor, the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and a Christopher Award. Her work has been named to ALA Notable Books and Bank Street Best Children's Book lists and she lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York.
Publisher: Holiday House

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