Bound To Stay Bound

		Lesson before dying  Author: Gaines, Ernest J.  Publisher:  Vintage Books (1994)  Classification: Fiction  Physical Description: 256 p.,  21 cm  BTSB No: 363844  ISBN: 9780375702709  Ages: 12-16  Grades: 7-11  Subjects:  African Americans -- Fiction  Prisoners -- Fiction  Race relations -- Fiction  Friendship -- Fiction  Louisiana -- Fiction
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Summary:
Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university, has returned to the plantation school to teach. As he struggles with his decision whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and Jefferson's godmother persuade him to visit Jefferson in his cell before his death.