{"product_id":"for-lamb","title":"For Lamb","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLamb 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA South Carolina Book Award Nominee\u003cbr\u003eA New York Public Library Best Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eA Horn Book Fanfare Book\u003cbr\u003eA Booklist Editors’ Choice\u003cbr\u003eA CSMCL Best Multicultural Children’s Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eA BookPage Best Young Adult Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eA Bank Street Best Book of the Year - Outstanding Merit\u003cbr\u003eA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Folded Corner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59636729217310,"sku":"9780823450152","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/4018\/5118\/files\/9780823450152.jpg?v=1784420643","url":"https:\/\/readfoldedcorner.com\/products\/for-lamb","provider":"Folded Corner Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}