{"product_id":"for-lamb-book-lesa-cline-ransome-9780823450152","title":"For Lamb","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFor Lamb\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA South Carolina Book Award Nominee\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA New York Public Library Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA Horn Book Fanfare Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA Booklist Editors' Choice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA CSMCL Best Multicultural Children's Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA BookPage Best Young Adult Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA Bank Street Best Book of the Year - Outstanding Merit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50176229081361,"sku":"CIN0823450155G","price":4.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008623116561,"sku":"NIN9780823450152","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53599023038737,"sku":"CIN0823450155A","price":4.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0823450155.jpg?v=1750746455","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/for-lamb-book-lesa-cline-ransome-9780823450152","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}