Midnight without a Moon (Sale)

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Rose Lee Carter, an African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955. Her world is rocked when an African-American boy, Emmett Till, is killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. A powerful middle-grade debut perfect for readers who enjoyedThe Watsons Go to BirminghamandBrown Girl Dreaming.

“A powerful story.”Kirkus Reviews
Its Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter cant wait to move north. For now, shes living with her sharecropper grandparents on a white mans cotton plantation. Then, one town over, an AfricanAmerican boy, Emmett Till, is killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. When Tills murderers are unjustly acquitted, Rose realizes that the South needs a change and that she should be part of the movement.Linda Jacksons moving debut seamlessly blends a fictional portrait of an AfricanAmerican family and factual events from a famous trial that provoked change in race relations in the United States.

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