Title: Midnight without a moon
Description: Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose is torn between seeking her destiny outside of Mississippi or staying and being a part of an important movement.
Subjects: Race relations, Juvenile fiction, History, African Americans, Racism, Fiction, Children's fiction, African americans, fiction, Race relations, fiction, Mississippi, fiction
Places: Mississippi
Time periods: 20th century