Fourteen-year-old Samantha and her mother move to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 after her father is killed in Vietnam, and during the year they spend there Sam encounters both love and hate as she learns about photography from a new friend of her mother's and witnesses the prejudice and violence of the segregationists of the South.
year: 2010, 2012
call number/section: 1000, 1960
subjects: race relations, photography, segregation, coming of age, fiction, mississippi, history, 20th century, fiction, fiction, fiction
Editions
McMullan, Margaret
Houghton Mifflin (2010)
Sam, having moved with her mother to Jackson, Mississippi, after the death of her father, finds the conservative 1960s values of the town clashing with her family's liberal views and struggles to navigate difficult relationships and understand segregation.
Schools: 15
McMullan, Margaret
Graphia/Houghton Mifflin (2012)
Fourteen-year-old Samantha and her mother move to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 after her father is killed in Vietnam, and during the year they spend there Sam encounters both love and hate as she learns about photography from a new friend of her mother's and witnesses the prejudice and violence of the segregationists of the South.
Schools: 0