For Lamb

von Lesa Cline-Ransome

304 Seiten, Hardcover, ab 14 Jahre

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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 South Carolina Book Award NomineeA New York Public Library Best Book of the YearA Horn Book Fanfare BookA Booklist Editors’ Choice A CSMCL Best Multicultural Children’s Book of the YearA BookPage Best Young Adult Book of the YearA Bank Street Best Book of the Year - Outstanding MeritA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

• Themen: Kinder, Jugendliche und Bildung Persönliche und soziale Themen Rassismus und Antirassismus
• ISBN: 9780823450152
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10.01.2023
• Größe: 216 x 151 mm
• Verlag: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Empf. Lesealter: ab 14 Jahre