Midnight Without a Moon

Washington Post 2017 KidsPost Summer Book Club selection!

It's Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can't wait to move north. But 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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 01/03/2017
ISBN: 9780544785106
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.30d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2016
Booklist 10/15/2016 pg. 59
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2016
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2017 pg. 95
School Library Journal 08/01/2017

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 190342 / Midnight Without a Moon
Reading Level: 5.6 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 10