# For Lamb

**Author:** Lesa Cline-Ransome
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Page count:** 306
**Genre:** Young Adult Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780823450152`
**ISBN-10:** `0823450155`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/for-lamb
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

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 lynchi

## Where this book is assigned

### South Carolina Young Adult Book Award

- **recommended** · 9th grade · South Carolina — [source: South Carolina Young Adult Book Award (South Carolina Association of School Librarians) — 2025-2026 nominees, grades 9-12; SC students read the slate and vote. Nominee list via the SC State Library StudySC portal + SCASL. — 2025-2026 nominee](https://www.scasl.net/young-adult-book-award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade · South Carolina — [source: South Carolina Young Adult Book Award (South Carolina Association of School Librarians) — 2025-2026 nominees, grades 9-12; SC students read the slate and vote. Nominee list via the SC State Library StudySC portal + SCASL. — 2025-2026 nominee](https://www.scasl.net/young-adult-book-award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade · South Carolina — [source: South Carolina Young Adult Book Award (South Carolina Association of School Librarians) — 2025-2026 nominees, grades 9-12; SC students read the slate and vote. Nominee list via the SC State Library StudySC portal + SCASL. — 2025-2026 nominee](https://www.scasl.net/young-adult-book-award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade · South Carolina — [source: South Carolina Young Adult Book Award (South Carolina Association of School Librarians) — 2025-2026 nominees, grades 9-12; SC students read the slate and vote. Nominee list via the SC State Library StudySC portal + SCASL. — 2025-2026 nominee](https://www.scasl.net/young-adult-book-award)

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