Midnight without a moon / Linda Williams Jackson.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780544785106 (hardback)
- ISBN: 054478510X (hardback)
- ISBN: 9781328753632
- ISBN: 1328753638
- Physical Description: 312 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Boston ; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | 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. |
Study Program Information Note: | Reading Counts! 6.6. |
Awards Note: | Nutmeg Award Nominee, Middle School (Teen), 2020. |
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Genre: | Historical fiction. Novels. Historical fiction. Fiction. |
Available copies
- 61 of 65 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kent Memorial Library - Suffield. (Show preferred library)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 65 total copies.
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Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | YA FICTION JACKSON (Text) | 32518144363283 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Babcock Library - Ashford | J Jac (Text) | 33110144130224 | Juvenile Nutmeg | Available | - |
Beacon Falls Public Library | J FIC JAC (Text) | 33120143473301 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Beardsley & Memorial Library - Winsted | J JACKSON (Text) | 33750000072861 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | YOUNG ADULT JACKSON, L. (Text) | 32544072548422 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | J JACKSON (ROSE LEE CARTER 1) (Text) | 34030141528841 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | J JACKSON (ROSE LEE CARTER 1) (Text) | 34030141529443 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Black Rock Branch - Bridgeport | J On Order (Text) | acq1328300 | Acquisitions | On order | - |
Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | YA JAC (Text) | 33260000275157 | Teen Fiction | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | TEEN F/JACKSON (Text) | 34029141696467 | Teen Fiction | Available | - |
Kirkus Review
Midnight Without a Moon
Kirkus Reviews
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The ugly brutality of the Jim Crow South is recounted in dulcet, poetic tones, creating a harsh and fascinating blend. Fact and fiction pair in the story of Rose Lee Carter, 13, as she copes with life in a racially divided world. It splits wide open when a 14-year-old boy from Chicago named Emmett Till goes missing. Jackson superbly blends the history into her narrative. The suffocating heat, oppression, and despair African-Americans experienced in 1955 Mississippi resonate. And the author effectively creates a protagonist with plenty of suffering all her own. Practically abandoned by her mother, Rose Lee is reviled in her own home for the darkness of her brown skin. The author ably captures the fear and dread of each day and excels when she shows the peril of blacks trying to assert their right to vote in the South, likely a foreign concept to todays kids. Where the book fails, however, is in its overuse of descriptors and dialect and the near-sociopathic zeal of Rose Lee's grandmother Ma Pearl and her lighter-skinned cousin Queen. Ma Pearl is an emotionally remote tyrant who seems to derive glee from crushing Rose Lee's spirits. And Queen is so glib and self-centered she's almost a cartoon. The birds-eye view into this pivotal moment provides a powerful story, one that adults will applaudbut between the avalanche of old-South homilies and Rose Lees relentlessly hopeless struggle, it may be a hard sell for younger readers. (Historical fiction. 10-12) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
BookList Review
Midnight Without a Moon
Booklist
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It's 1955 in Mississippi, and 13-year-old Rose has a dream: to leave the cotton fields, follow her mama to Chicago, go to an integrated school, and then head to college to become a teacher or doctor thereby having the means to take care of her family. But then her harridan of a grandmother decrees that Rose won't be going back to school, even though she's only finished seventh grade. So much, it would seem, for her dream. Meanwhile, the larger world intrudes when a young neighbor is murdered for registering to vote and then a 14-year-old boy visiting from Chicago named Emmett Till is also murdered. Will the deaths be meaningless or will they presage change, both for Mississippi and for Rose? Jackson's debut does an excellent job dramatizing the injustice that was epidemic in the pre-civil rights South and capturing the sounds and sensibilities of that time and place. Her sympathetic characters and their stories will make this thoughtful book especially good for classroom use.--Cart, Michael Copyright 2016 Booklist
The Horn Book Review
Midnight Without a Moon
The Horn Book
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In the summer of 1955, thirteen-year-old Rose Lee Carter chafes at the daily drudgery of life in rural Mississippi. Rose, who lives with her sharecropper grandparents, suffers from low self-esteem fostered by her despotic grandmother, who incessantly reminds her of her undesirable dark skin color ("blacker than midnight without a moon"). She longs to join her mother and favorite aunt, who leave the South in search of better lives, settling in Chicago and St. Louis, respectively. Rose's routine is precipitously disrupted when Emmett Till, a teenage boy from "up north," is killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The murder deeply affects her as she attempts to negotiate the dilemma of a community divided between those who are afraid to challenge the status quo and those who demand change. Through her friendship with the local preacher's son, Rose gains insight into the intricacies of the segregated South and begins to realize her own sense of place. This nuanced coming-of-age story by a debut author is deftly delivered, with engaging characters set against a richly contextualized backdrop of life for African Americans during the Jim Crow era. It's also an authentic work of historical fiction (supported by Southern vernacular in both dialogue and vocabulary that accurately reflects the era) about a pivotal incident in the civil rights movement. pauletta brown bracy (c) Copyright 2017. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.