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Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose is torn between seeking her destiny outside of Mississippi or staying and being a part of an important movement.
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4 editions- Paperback · English · 2017HMH Books for Young Readers · 320 pages · 9781328753632
- Other · English · 2017Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 288 pages · 9780544868205
- Other · English · 2017Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 9781536428483
- Other · English · 2017312 pages · 9780544785106
Race relationsJuvenile fictionHistoryAfrican AmericansRacismFictionChildren's fictionAfrican americans, fiction