A Sky Full of Stars
Linda Williams Jackson
In 1955, Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Stillwater, Mississippi, confronts increasingly severe racial tension and tries to understand her place in the Civil Rights Movement. After Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are acquitted, she questions remaining in Mississippi. Her best friend Hallelujah believes peaceful protest can bring change, while Shorty favors responding to violence with violence. Rose must find her own path amid pervasive racism and fading hope.
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