For Lamb
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Author:
Cline-Ransome, Lesa,
Published:
New York : Holiday House, 2023.
Format:
Book
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Desc:
297 pages ; 22 cm
Rating:
Ages: 14-18.
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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."--

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Subjects

LC Subjects
African Americans -- Fiction.
Interracial friendship -- Fiction.
Jackson (Miss.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Jackson (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Other Subjects
Historical fiction.
Lesbian fiction.
Social problem fiction.
Young adult fiction.

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ISBN:
9780823450152, 9780823458943, 0823458946

Notes

Description
"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."--,Publisher's website.
Target Audience
Ages: 14-18.
Target Audience
Grades: 9-12.

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APA Citation (style guide)

Cline-Ransome, L. (2023). For Lamb. First edition. Holiday House.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Cline-Ransome, Lesa. 2023. For Lamb. Holiday House.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Cline-Ransome, Lesa, For Lamb. Holiday House, 2023.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Cline-Ransome, Lesa. For Lamb. First edition. Holiday House, 2023.

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