Being Clem [Finding Langston Trilogy Volume: Book 3]by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

Paperback(Holiday House, 2022)

BTSB #: 222859 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.

Finding Langston [Finding Langston Trilogy Volume: Book 1]by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

Paperback(Holiday House, 2020)

BTSB #: 222868 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-11   
AR: 4.5 MG RC: 4.6 3-5 Lexile: 760

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Books and reading - Fiction Poetry - Fiction Moving - Fiction Bullies - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Single-parent families - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: 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.

Leaving Lymon [Finding Langston Trilogy Volume: Book 2]by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

Paperback(Holiday House, 2021)

BTSB #: 222864 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG

Genres: Family Life Historical Fiction

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.