For Lamb [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

Cline-Ransome, Lesa

ISBN 10: 0823450155 / ISBN 13: 9780823450152

Published by Holiday House, 2023

About this Item

New in new dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page (signature and date only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. New, unread copy with dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. ?Signed Copy? sticker. A YA novel of an interracial friendship between two girls in 1940's Jim Crow South by the Jane Addams Children's Book Award-, Coretta Scott King Book Award-, Scott O'Dell Award-, Christopher Award-, Charlotte Zolotow Award-, and Mathical Honors-winning author of the Finding Langston trilogy and ?Before She Was Harriet?. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: For Lamb [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
• Publisher: Holiday House
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823450155
• ISBN 13: 9780823450152
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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 South Carolina Book Award Nominee
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

About the Author

Lesa Cline-Ransome is the author of more than twenty books for young readers including the award-winning Finding Langston trilogy. Her work has received a plethora of honors, including dozens of starred reviews, NAACP Image Award nominations, a Coretta Scott King honor, the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction and a Christopher Award. Her work has been named to ALA Notable Books and Bank Street Best Children’s Book lists and she lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York.