Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.

2) Leaving Lymon

Author

Cline-Ransome, Lesa

Series

Finding Langston volume 2

Pub. Date

2020

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6

Language

English

Formats

eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father.

3) Being Clem

Author

Cline-Ransome, Lesa

Series

Finding Langston volume 3

Pub. Date

2021

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8

Language

English

Formats

eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family's losses and struggles in 1940's Chicago. 1944. Clem's father is away, serving as a sailor in World War II. When the family receives news that his father has died in the infamous Port Chicago explosion in San Francisco, everything begins to fall apart. Clem's mother is forced to work long, tough hours as a maid for a wealthy white family. The obstacles...

4) Overground railroad

Author

Cline-Ransome, Lesa

Series

Live Oak Media eReadalong

Publisher

Holiday House

Pub. Date

2020

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

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"A girl named Ruth Anne tells the story of her family's train journey from North Carolina to New York City as part of the Great Migration"--

5) Before she was Harriet

Author

Cline-Ransome, Lesa

Publisher

Live Oak Media

Pub. Date

2019

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Appears on list

Coretta Scott King Award

Description

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A lush and lyrical biography of Harriet Tubman, written in verse. An evocative poem and opulent watercolors come together to honor a woman of humble origins whose courage and compassion make her larger than life.

6) Of Walden Pond: Henry David Thoreau, Frederic Tudor, and the Pond Between

Author

Cline-Ransome, Lesa

Publisher

Holiday House

Pub. Date

2022

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

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From the award-winning author of Before She Was Harriet comes another work of lyrical beauty, the story of Henry David Thoreau and businessman Frederic Tudor—and a changing world.
Thoreau and Tudor could not have been more different from each other. Yet both shared the bounties of Walden Pond and would change the course of history through their writings and innovations.

This study in opposites contrasts the austere...

7) Counting the stars

Author

Cline-Ransome, Lesa

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

2019

Edition

First edition.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

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"The story of Katherine Johnson, an African American mathematician whose work was critical to the first US space flight"--

8) Before There Was Mozart: The Story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George

Author

Cline-Ransome, Lesa

Publisher

Random House Children's Books

Pub. Date

2012

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

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The musical superstar of 18th-century France was Joseph Boulogne--a black man. This inspiring story tells how Joseph, the only child of a black slave and her white master, becomes "the most accomplished man in Europe." After traveling from his native West Indies to study music in Paris, young Joseph is taunted about his skin color. Despite his classmates' cruel words, he continues to devote himself to his violin, eventually becoming conductor of

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9) She Persisted: Claudette Colvin

Author

Cline-Ransome, Lesa

Series

She Persisted

Publisher

Books on Tape

Pub. Date

2021

Edition

Unabridged

Language

English

Description

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Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up and rose up against the odds!
In this chapter book biography by award-winning author Lesa Cline-Ransome, readers learn about the amazing life of Claudette Colvin—and how she persisted.
Before Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a...

10) The Story of the Saxophone

Author

Cline-Ransome, Lesa

Publisher

Dreamscape Media

Pub. Date

2023

Edition

Unabridged

Language

English

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You may think that the story of the saxophone begins with Dexter Gordon or Charlie Parker or on a street corner in New Orleans. It really began in 1840 in Belgium with a young daydreamer named Joseph-Antoine Adolphe Sax—a boy with bad luck but great ideas. Coretta Scott King Honoree Lesa Cline-Ransome unravels the fascinating history of how Adolphe's once reviled instrument was transported across Europe and Mexico to New Orleans. Follow the...