{"product_id":"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\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\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":"Holiday House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044931584240,"sku":"9780823450152","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780823450152_p0.jpg?v=1763752837","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780823450152","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}