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    Midnight without a Moon
    Midnight without a Moon
    Midnight without a Moon
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    Midnight without a Moon

    By Linda Williams Jackson

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    Washington Post 2017 KidsPost Summer Book Club selection!

    It’s Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can’t wait to move north. But 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 realizes that the South needs a change . . . and that she should be part of the movement. 

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJan 3, 2017
    ISBN9780544868205
    Midnight without a Moon
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    Linda Williams Jackson

    Linda Williams Jackson was born in a small town in Mississippi and likes to write about unassuming, everyday characters in small-town settings. She still lives in Mississippi with her husband and children. www.lindajcksonwrites.blogspot.com

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    • 3/5
      This would have been a two-star book, but it got an extra star because the subject matter is important.

      Here's what didn't work:

      1. The dialect: Using dialect in written dialogue helps establish character and denote time and place. Here, however, it was heavy-handed and more distracting than illuminating.

      2. Rose: She spent the entire book wanting nothing more than to leave her small Mississippi town, but, at the very end, with no real explanation, she chooses to stay.

      3. Rose's name: In a book about the spark that lit the fire of the Civil Rights movement, calling your protagonist "Rosa" is a little too on-the-nose.

      4. The age level: Some of the subject matter and language seemed more appropriate for an older readership (the book's age range is indicated by the publisher as 10-12), but Rose herself often spoke and acted younger than her 13 years. At the very least, this is an upper middle-grade novel, more suited for a 12-14 readership. But, even then, Rose needs to truly be a thirteen-year-old and not continually act like a ten- or eleven-year-old.

      5. The self-importance: The subject matter of this book is important, yes, but it was one of those books where you felt the author may have had an over-inflated sense of exactly how important and it leaked through to the writing itself.

      6. Info-dumping: There were a lot of explanatory passages where the information imparted may have been better delivered in an author's note or glossary at the end.

      As I've mentioned (several times), this book deals with important subject matter and will probably find a place in many classrooms and school libraries. As a book that one would pick up just to read for pleasure, though, it fell short. It's possible for historical fiction to entertain while educating and, for me, this book did not accomplish that feat.
    • 4/5
      MIDNIGHT WITHOUT A MOON by Linda Williams Jackson is a work of historical fiction exploring the lives of African Americans of the Jim Crow South.Set in the summer of 1955, Rose Lee and her family experience life in Mississippi and the prospect of moving north. Weaving in real events about a famous trial with fictional stories set in an African American family, the story blends fact and fiction to immerse readers in the time period.Librarians will find the connection with a real historical event adds interest to this middle grade novel. The sympathetic characters and historical backdrop make it perfect for classroom activities revolving around the Jim Crow era.Published by HMH Books for Young Readers on January 3, 2017. ARC courtesy of the publisher.
    • 4/5
      This book was provided to me as an advance reader copy by the publisher, in exchange for an honest review.

      It’s Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can’t wait to move north. But 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 realizes that the South needs a change . . . and that she should be part of the movement.

      I have been reading for a long time, and have easily read thousands of books. It’s not unusual for a story to make me cry, rage, laugh, or sigh, but it is unicorn rare for a book to actually inspire me to re-think my stand on social issues. Midnight Without Moon is, by turns, poetic, heartbreaking, frustrating, and beautiful.
      The life of Rose Lee Carter is hard. At 13, she works harder than most grown adults today could relate to. She faces emotional and physical abuse daily, both at home and at the hands of strangers. Her life is continually at risk because of the color of her skin. Despite all this, she never stops dreaming of having a better life. Whenever she plans for this life however, her imagination always takes her north and out of Mississippi, because she’s been taught that nothing can ever change in Mississippi. But what if things can change? What if all that’s needed is a refusal to back down? These are the ideas that Rose begins to ponder, and these are the ideas that ultimately reshape her thinking regarding what it means to be free.
      I would recommend this book to readers of all ages, and suggest it be including in any middle school lesson on race relations and the civil rights movement.

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