Linda Williams Jackson: 2 books
by Linda Williams Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
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...
by Linda Williams Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
After the murder of Emmett Till, thirteen-year-old Rose is struggling with her decision to stay in Mississippi. Torn between the opinions of Shorty, a boy who wants to meet violence with violence, and Hallelujah, her best friend who believes in the power of peaceful protests, Rose is scared of the...