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312 pp.
| Houghton |
January, 2017 |
TradeISBN 978-0-544-78510-6$16.99
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4-6
In 1955, the daily drudgery of thirteen-year-old Rose's life with her sharecropper grandparents is precipitously disrupted when Emmett Till is murdered. This nuanced coming-of-age story is deftly delivered, with engaging characters set against a richly contextualized backdrop of life for African Americans during the Jim Crow era. It's also an authentic work of historical fiction about a pivotal incident in the civil rights movement.