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Sources of Light
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Sources of Light (2010) (edit title/settings)

by Margaret McMullan (Author) (edit contributors)

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It's 1962, a year after the death of Sam's father--he was a war hero--and Sam and her mother must move, along with their very liberal views, to Jackson, Mississippi, her father's conservative hometown. Needless to say, they don't quite fit in. People like the McLemores fear that Sam, her... read more

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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... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

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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Original Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780547076591
Page Count: 233

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