For Lamb

By: Cline-Ransome, Lesa

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 Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823458946
• ISBN13: 9780823458943
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Holiday House
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher