Sources of light

Type

Book

Authors

McMullan, Margaret

ISBN 13

9780547076591

Tags

Amelia Bloomer Lists, YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, civil rights movement, Fourteen-year-old girls, photography, race relations, racism, Segregation, Teenage boy/girl relations, Teenage Girls

Abstract

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.

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