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Gr 5–7—Jackson's second novel in the continuing story of Rosa "Rose" Lee Carter, a 13-year-old African American girl growing up in Mississippi. The year is 1955, and the town of Stillwater, MI, is still reeling from the injustice of Emmett Till's murderers going free. The white folks are saying that ever since the trial, "the coloreds have gotten beside themselves." Trouble is brewing closer to Rosa than it ever has before. Her best friend, Hallelujah, the preacher's son, is stirrin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In this sequel to Midnight Without a Moon (rev. 1/17), thirteen-year-old Rosa Lee Carter, part of a struggling sharecropper family in segregated mid-1950s Mississippi, continues her search for self. In the first book, Rosa and her community were left reeling by the murder, in a nearby town, of Emmett Till and the subsequent not-guilty verdict for his killers; now, her world is further complicated by a series of unprovoked assaults on and murders of African American men. The ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More