Midnight Without a Moon

by Linda Williams Jackson

Book Overview

Washington Post 2017 KidsPost Summer Book Club selection!

It's Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can't wait to move north. But 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 054478510X
• ISBN13: 9780544785106
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7