Lesa Cline-Ransome
Website:lesaclineransome.com
 
Birthplace: Malden, MA    
 
Most recent address:Rhinebeck, NY    
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222880
Before she was Harriet by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2019)

BTSB #: 222880 Available

Dewey: 973.7115/BAges: 5-8   
AR: 4.5 LG Lexile: NP

Subjects: Tubman, Harriet,|d1820?-1913 Slaves African Americans - Biography African American women - Biography Underground Railroad


Summary: Poetry that celebrates the diverse accomplishments of Harriet Tubman as revealed by her many names.


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Being Clem by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2021)

BTSB #: 222867 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.8 MG Lexile: 900 F&P: X

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Family life - Illinois - Chicago - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Single-parent families - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: 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.


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Claudette Colvin [She Persisted]by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

BTSB Prebound(Philomel, 2021)

BTSB #: 222911 Available

Dewey: 323.092/BAges: 6-9   
AR: 6.3 LG Lexile: 1170 NC F&P: S

Subjects: Colvin, Claudette,|d1939- African Americans - Alabama - Montgomery - Biography African American civil rights workers - Alabama - Montgomery - Biography African Americans - Segregation - Alabama - Montgomery - History Segregation in transportation - Alabama - Montgomery - History Montgomery (Ala.) - Biography Montgomery (Ala.) - Race relations - History|y20th century


Summary: Before Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a bus, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin made the same choice. She insisted on standing up-or in her case, sitting down-for what was right.


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222858
Fighting with love : the legacy of John Lewis by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2024)

BTSB #: 222858 Available

Dewey: 328.73/BAges: 4-8   


Subjects: Lewis, John,|d1940-2020 African American civil rights workers - Biography Civil rights workers - United States - Biography African Americans - Civil rights - History|y20th century United States - Race relations


Summary: The story of a groundbreaking civil rights leader, John Lewis. John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama to join the fight for civil rights. He was only a teenager. He soon became a leader of a moment that changed a nation. Walking at the side of his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Lewis was led by his belief in peaceful action and voting rights.


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For Lamb by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2023)

BTSB #: 222918 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
F&P: Z+

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Family life - Fiction Lesbians - Fiction Segregation - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Mississippi - Fiction


Summary: An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north--if only he could curb his impulsiveness and rebellious nature.


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222877
Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2018)

BTSB #: 222877 Available

Dewey: 796.342/CAges: 5-9   
AR: 6 LG RC: 9.2 3-5 Lexile: 1030 F&P: P

Subjects: Williams, Venus,|d1980- Williams, Serena,|d1981- African American women tennis players - Biography Tennis players Sisters


Summary: The inspiring story of sisters, champion athletes, and tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams.


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222871
Leaving Lymon by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2020)

BTSB #: 222871 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life


Subjects: Family problems - Fiction Moving - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Milwaukee (Wis.) - History|y20th century - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: 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.


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Loud and proud : the life of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2023)

BTSB #: 222912 Available

Dewey: 328.73/BAges: 4-8   


Subjects: Chisholm, Shirley,|d1924-2005 United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography African American legislators - Biography Women legislators - United States - Biography Legislators - United States - Biography African American presidential candidates - Biography Women presidential candidates - United States - Biography Presidential candidates - United States - Biography Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - Biography New York (N.Y.) - Biography


Summary: Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) is a hero and trailblazer. She was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties (1972).


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222869
Not playing by the rules : 21 female athletes who changed sports by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

BTSB Prebound(Knopf, 2020)

BTSB #: 222869 Available

Dewey: 796/CAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 1160 F&P: W

Subjects: Women athletes - Biography Sports Sports - Awards


Summary: Introduces twenty-one trailblazing women who have broken through the boundaries set for female athletes.


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222861
Of Walden Pond : Henry David Thoreau, Frederic Tudor, and the pond between by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2022)

BTSB #: 222861 Available

Dewey: 974.4/NAges: 6-9   
F&P: T

Subjects: Thoreau, Henry David,|d1817-1862 Tudor, Frederic,|d1783-1864 Ice industry Nature Walden Pond (Middlesex County, Mass.)


Summary: The story of Henry David Thoreau's time at Walden Pond is contrasted with businessman Frederic Tudor's scheme to cut 180 tons of ice from Walden Pond and transport it to India.


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222856
One big open sky by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2024)

BTSB #: 222856 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Novels in verse Wagon trains - Fiction Frontier and pioneer life - Fiction African Americans - Fiction United States - History|y19th century - Fiction


Summary: In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska.


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Overground railroad by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2020)

BTSB #: 222907 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 4.2 LG Lexile: 1000 AD

Genres: Multicultural Historical Fiction


Subjects: African Americans - Migrations - Fiction African Americans - History - Fiction Railroad travel - Fiction


Summary: 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.


222909
Power of her pen : the story of groundbreaking journalist Ethel L. Payne by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2020)

BTSB #: 222909 Available

Dewey: 70.92/BAges: 4-8   
AR: 5.9 LG Lexile: 1080 NC F&P: P

Subjects: Payne, Ethel L Journalists - United States - Biography African American women journalists - Biography


Summary: The inspiring story of Ethel Payne, a groundbreaking African American journalist known as the First Lady of the Black Press.


222915
The story of the saxophone by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2023)

BTSB #: 222915 Available

Dewey: 788.7/BAges: 6-9   


Subjects: Sax, Adolphe,|d1814-1894 Saxophone - History Musicians - Biography


Summary: Explore the story of the saxophone, from its beginnings in 1840s Belgium all the way to New Orleans, where an instrument in a pawn shop caught the eye of musician Sidney Bechet and became the iconic symbol it is today.


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222879
Whale trails, before and now by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2015)

BTSB #: 222879 Available

Dewey: EAges: 5-9   
AR: 6.2 LG F&P: P

Genres: Animals


Subjects: Whales - Fiction Whale watching - Fiction Whaling - Fiction Endangered species - Fiction


Summary: A young girl helps her father, the captain of a whale boat, on a whale-watching trip and relates how her ancestors hunted whales in the same waters. Includes information on the history of whaling, whale-watching, and the conservation movement to ensure the safety of whales.


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