Midnight Without a Moon
Rose Lee Carter Book 1
"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.
Product Details
- Paperback
- 320 pages
- ISBN
- 9781328753632
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company (12/5/17)
- Dimensions
- 5.4 x 0.8 x 7.7 inches
- Tags
Tags
historical fiction, middle grade, mississippi