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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
The price of "For Lamb (Hardcover Book)" at Up Up & Away! Cincinnati (Cheviot) is USD $18.99.
The publisher of "For Lamb (Hardcover Book)" is Holiday House.
The genres of "For Lamb (Hardcover Book)" are Young Adult Fiction - LGBTQ+, Young Adult Fiction - People & Places - United States - African American & Black, and Young Adult Fiction - Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism.
"For Lamb (Hardcover Book)" falls under the category of Books (Hardcover).
The writer of "For Lamb (Hardcover Book)" is Lesa Cline-Ransome.