Lay That Trumpet In Our Hands

ISBN-10: 0553381032
ISBN-13: 9780553381030
Author: McCarthy, Susan Carol
Interest Level: 9-12
Publisher: Penguin Random House

Publication Date: April 2003

Copyright: 2002

Page Count: 288

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Interest Level

Grades 9-12

Reading Level

Lexile: 940L
Accelerated Reader Level: 6.0
Accelerated Reader Points: 11.0

BISAC Subjects

FICTION / African American / Historical

FICTION / Biographical

Description
In 1951, the Ku Klux Klan brutally murders nineteen-year-old Marvin Cully, a crime that transforms the town of Mayflower, Florida, into a battleground as violence erupts across the state and Thurgood Marshall and Harry T. Moore of the NAACP join the Reesa McMahon and her family, owners of a local orange grove, to uncover the killers, in a story based on a real-life crime. A first novel. Reprint.