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520 a| "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"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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For Lamb / Lesa Cline-Ransome.

Author/creator	Cline-Ransome, Lesa author.
Format	Book
Edition	First edition.
Publication	New York : Holiday House, [2023]
Copyright Date	©2023
Description	297 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects	Interracial friendship--Juvenile fiction. Teenage girls--Juvenile fiction. African American families--Juvenile fiction. Lesbian mothers--Juvenile fiction. African Americans--Juvenile fiction. Jackson (Miss.)--History. --20th century. --Juvenile fiction. Jackson (Miss.)--Race relations. --History. --Juvenile fiction.

Abstract	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
General note	"Coretta Scott King Honor award-Winning Author"--Dust jacket.
Interest age level	Ages 14-18
Interest grade level	Grades 8-12
Genre/form	Fiction.
Genre/form	History.
Genre/form	Young adult works.
Genre/form	Historical fiction.
Genre/form	Social problem fiction.
Genre/form	Lesbian fiction.
Genre/form	Historical fiction.
LCCN	2023287747
ISBN	9780823450152 (hardcover)
ISBN	0823450155 (hardcover)

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