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Sources of light  Cover Image Book Book

Sources of light

McMullan, Margaret (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0547722362 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780547722368 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0547076592
  • ISBN: 9780547076591
  • Physical Description: 233 p. ; 21 cm.
    print
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Baldwin Library copy signed by the author.
"Manufactured in the United States of America"--t.p. verso.
Summary, etc.: 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.
Awards Note:
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2011
Subject: Bildungsromans
Race relations Juvenile fiction
Photography Juvenile fiction
Segregation Juvenile fiction
Racism Mississippi Juvenile fiction
Teenage girls Juvenile fiction
Mothers and daughters Juvenile fiction
Coming of age Fiction
Race relations Fiction
Photography Fiction
Segregation Fiction
Racism Mississippi Fiction
The Sixties (20th century) Fiction
Teenage girls Fiction
Fourteen-year-old girls Fiction
Civil rights movement Fiction
Teenage boy/girl relations Fiction
Mississippi History 20th century Juvenile fiction
Mississippi History 20th century Fiction

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Bolton High School.

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