For Lamb

**An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South.** *For Lamb* 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. 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. 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. **A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year** **A Horn Book Fanfare Book** **A Booklist Editors’ Choice** **A CSMCL Best Multicultural Children’s Book of the Year** **A BookPage Best Young Adult Book of the Year** **A Bank Street Best Book of the Year – Outstanding Merit** **A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection**