Midnight Without a Moon

By Linda Williams Jackson

Book Overview

"A powerful story." --Kirkus Reviews It's Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can't wait to move north. For now, she's living with her sharecropper grandparents on a white man's cotton plantation. Then, one town over, an African American boy, Emmett Till, is killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. When Till's murderers are unjustly acquitted, Rose realizes that the South needs a change and that she should be part of the movement. Linda Jackson's moving debut seamlessly blends a fictional portrait of an African American family and factual events from a famous trial that provoked change in race relations in the United States.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1328753638
• ISBN13: 9781328753632
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7