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Title For Lamb / Lesa Cline-Ransome.
Author Cline-Ransome, Lesa, author. https://isni.org/isni/0000000034522916
Publication Info. New York : Holiday House, [2023]
©2023.
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Location Call No. Status
 Hiawassee  YA FIC CLI    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Club Central  YA FIC CLI    Check Shelves
 South Creek  YA FIC CLI    Check Shelves
 Southwest  YA FIC CLI    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description 297 pages ; 21 cm
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Summary "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.
Subject Interracial friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction.
African American families -- Juvenile fiction.
Lesbian mothers -- Juvenile fiction.
Jackson (Miss.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Jackson (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre Young adult fiction.
Social problem fiction.
Lesbian fiction.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9780823450152 hardback : $18.99
0823450155 hardback : $18.99