For Lamb by Lesa Cline-Ransome
OVERVIEW
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.
PRODUCT INFO
- Publisher : Holiday House (January 10, 2023)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0823450155
- ISBN-13 : 978-0823450152
- Reading age : 14 - 17 years
- Grade level : 9 - 12
- Item Weight : 13.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.76 x 1.03 x 8.68 inches