by Linda Williams Jackson (Author)
"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.
Author Biography
Linda Jackson was born in a small town in Mississippi and likes to write about unassuming, everyday characters in small-town settings. She still lives in Mississippi with her husband and children.
Number of Pages: 320
Dimensions: 0.9 x 7.6 x 5 IN
Publication Date: December 05, 2017
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Midnight Without a Moon
Interest Level: Middle Grades, 4-8
Reading Level: 5.6
Point Value: 10
