Midnight Without a Moon

Author(s): Linda Williams Jackson

Middle School (Ages 11-14)

It's Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can't wait to move north. For now, she's living with her sharecropper grandparents on a white man's cotton plantation. Then, one town over, an African American boy, Emmett Till, is killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. When Till's murderers are unjustly acquitted, Rose realises that the South needs a change and that she should be part of the movement.


Product Information

Linda Jackson's moving debut seamlessly blends a fictional portrait of an African American family and factual events from a famous trial that provoked change in race relations in the United States.

General Fields

  • : 9781328753632
  • : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
  • : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
  • : 05 December 2017
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Linda Williams Jackson
  • : Paperback
  • : FIC