Lesa Cline-Ransome Archives | The Nerd Daily https://thenerddaily.com/tag/lesa-cline-ransome/ All Things Nerdy Sat, 07 Jan 2023 05:05:04 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://i0.wp.com/thenerddaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cropped-Nerd-Daily-Logo-Favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Lesa Cline-Ransome Archives | The Nerd Daily https://thenerddaily.com/tag/lesa-cline-ransome/ 32 32 122026701 Read An Excerpt From ‘For Lamb’ by Lesa Cline-Ransome https://thenerddaily.com/for-lamb-by-lesa-cline-ransome-excerpt/ https://thenerddaily.com/for-lamb-by-lesa-cline-ransome-excerpt/#respond Fri, 06 Jan 2023 12:00:42 +0000 https://thenerddaily.com/?p=42554 An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. Intrigued? Well read on to discover the synopsis and an excerpt from Lesa Cline-Ransome’s For Lamb, which is out January 10th! 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 […]

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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.

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Excerpt from For Lamb / Text copyright © 2023 by Lesa Cline-Ransome. Reproduced by permission from Holiday House Publishing Company, Inc. All rights reserved.
 
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.

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