HardCover. Pub Date: April. 2010 Pages: 240 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children It's 1962. A year after the death of Sam's father. And Sam and HER Mother must MOVE to Jackson. Mississippi. HER father's conservative Hometown Needless to say. they don't quite fit in. People fear that Sam. her mother. and her mother's artist friend. Perry. are in the South to agitate and to shake up the dividing lines between black and white and blur it all to gray. As racial injustices ensue-sit-ins and run-ins with secret white supremacists-Sam learns to focus with her camera lens to ing social injustice out of the darkness and into the light.