``A powerful story.`` -- Kirkus Reviews It\'s Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can\'t wait to move north.
Linda Jackson\'s moving debut.
When Till\'s murderers are unjustly acquitted, Rose realizes that the South needs a change and that she should be part of the movement.
Then, one town over, an African American boy, Emmett Till, is killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
For now, she\'s living with her sharecropper grandparents on a white man\'s cotton plantation. ``A powerful story.`` -- Kirkus Reviews It\'s Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can\'t wait to move north