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Finding Langston Books

In order from Finding Langston to Being Clem
Finding Langston
Leaving Lymon
Being Clem
Finding Langston
Leaving Lymon
chapter • 112 Pages
Finding Langston
#1 in Series
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Finding Langston

Written and illustrated by Lesa Cline-Ransome
8 - 12
Reading age
112
Page count
205
Words per page
Jan 7, 2020
Publication date
Paperback
$7.99
$7.59

Summary

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, with 5 Starred Reviews, and a School Library Journal Best Book of 2018 When eleven-year-old Langston’s father moves them from their home in Alabama to Chicago’s Bronzeville district, it feels like he’s giving up everything he loves. It’s 1946. Langston’s mother has just died, and now they’re leaving the rest of his family and friends. He misses everything– Grandma’s Sunday suppers, the red dirt roads, and the magnolia trees his mother loved. In the city, they live in a small apartment surrounded by noise and chaos. It doesn’t feel like a new start, or a better life. At home he’s lonely, his father always busy at work; at school he’s bullied for being a country boy. But Langston’s new home has one fantastic thing. Unlike the whites-only library in Alabama, the Chicago Public Library welcomes everyone. There, hiding out after school, Langston discovers another Langston–a poet whom he learns inspired his mother enough to name her only son after him. Lesa Cline-Ransome, author of the Coretta Scott King Honor picture book Before She Was Harriet, has crafted a lyrical debut novel about one boy’s experiences during the Great Migration. Includes an author’s note about the historical context and her research. Winner of the 2019 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A Junior Library Guild selection!

Finding Langston Series

Published from 2020 - 2022
3 books
chapter • 112 Pages
Finding Langston
Paperback
$7.99$7.59
chapter • 112 Pages
Leaving Lymon
#2 in Series
Paperback
$8.99$8.36
chapter • 256 Pages
Being Clem
#3 in Series
Paperback
$8.99$8.58
Year#TitlePages
20201Finding Langston112
20212Leaving Lymon112
20223Being Clem256

The Creative Behind the Books

    Author & Illustrator
    Lesa Cline-Ransome

    Lesa Cline-Ransome is the author of many books for children, including My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle & Journey to Alvin Ailey, which was an ALA Notable Book, an IRA Notable Book for a Global Society, and an NCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended title for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children; Satchel Paige, an ALA Notable Book and a Top 10 Sports Book for Youth; and Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass, which The New York Times Book Review called, “visceral, intimate, and plainly told, this story is sure to move young children, and also motivate them to read more.” Her books were all illustrated by her husband, James E. Ransome. A graduate of the Pratt Institute, she holds a master’s degree in early childhood and elementary education from NYU. She lives with her family in upstate New York. Visit her at LesaClineRansome.com.

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