First edition.

297 pages ; 21 cm

"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.

Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction.

Interracial friendship -- Juvenile fiction.

African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.

Jackson (Miss.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.

Jackson (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History -- Juvenile fiction.

African Americans.

Mississippi -- Jackson.

1900-1999

Young adult fiction.

Historical fiction.

Fiction.

History.

Young adult works.

9780823450152 (hardback)

0823450155 (hardback)