For Lamb by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2023)

BTSB #: 222918 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
F&P: Z+

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Family life - Fiction Lesbians - Fiction Segregation - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Mississippi - Fiction

Summary: An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north--if only he could curb his impulsiveness and rebellious nature.

J.D. and the family business [J.D. The Kid Barber Volume: Book 2]by Dillard, J. 

Paperback(Kokila, 2021)

BTSB #: 279266 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   
AR: 4.8 LG Lexile: 730

Genres: Multicultural Chapter Books Family Life

Subjects: YouTube (Electronic resource) - Fiction Barbers - Fiction Haircutting - Fiction Video recordings - Production and direction - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Mississippi - Fiction

Summary: Eight-year-old kid barber J.D. joins forces with his sister, who has beauty shop dreams, to find stardom online.

J.D. and the family business [J.D. The Kid Barber Volume: Book 2]by Dillard, J. 

BTSB Prebound(Kokila, 2021)

BTSB #: 758084 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   
AR: 4.8 LG

Genres: Multicultural Chapter Books Family Life

Subjects: YouTube (Electronic resource) - Fiction Barbers - Fiction Haircutting - Fiction Video recordings - Production and direction - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Mississippi - Fiction

Summary: Eight-year-old kid barber J.D. joins forces with his sister, who has beauty shop dreams, to find stardom online.

Love, Ruby Lavender by Wiles, Deborah 

Paperback(Harcourt, 2005)

BTSB #: 947690 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.2 MG RC: 4.5 3-5 Lexile: 570 F&P: U

Genres:

Subjects: Grandparents - Fiction Self-reliance - Fiction Death - Fiction Mississippi - Fiction

Summary: When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer, nine-year-old Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi by writing letters, befriending the new girl in town, and finally coping with her grandfather's death.

Sources of light by McMullan, Margaret 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010)

BTSB #: 629617 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.2 MG+RC: 5.5 6-8 Lexile: 840 F&P: W

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Bildungsromans Race relations - Fiction Photography - Fiction Segregation - Fiction Mississippi - Fiction

Summary: Samantha, 14, and her mother move to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 after her father is killed in Vietnam, where she learns photography and sees prejudice and violence of the segregationist South.