"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.
| ISBN: | 9781328753632 |
| Publication date: | 5th December 2017 |
| Author: | Linda Williams Jackson |
| Publisher: | Clarion Books an imprint of HarperCollins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Prejudice and intolerance Children’s / Teenage fiction: Friendship stories Stories about Family and Friends Historical Fiction PSHE: Family Issues Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism and anti-racism Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction |