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.

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.

Boots [League Of Secret Heroes Volume: Book Three]by Hannigan, Kate 

BTSB Prebound(Aladdin, 2021)

BTSB #: 418264 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.9 MG Lexile: 710 F&P: W

Genres: Adventure Fiction Historical Fiction

Subjects: Superheroes - Fiction Spies - Fiction Kidnapping - Fiction Women air pilots - Fiction Air pilots - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - History|y20th century - Fiction Paris (France) - History|y1940-1944 - Fiction France - History|y1940-1945, German occupation - Fiction

Summary: When Mae's Aunt Willa and Aunt Jane, both pilots, are kidnapped by evil Metallic Falcon, Josie, Mae, and Akiko, the Infinity Trinity, pursue them from Chicago to Sweetwater, Texas, to Paris, France.

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.

Finding Langston : a novel by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2018)

BTSB #: P06041 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-11   


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.

Fire in the streets by Magoon, Kekla 

Publisher Edition - Large Print Hardcover(Thorndike Press, 2021)

BTSB #: 596643 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 9-14   


Genres:

Subjects: Black Panther Party - Fiction Large print books Civil rights movements - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination in 1968, Chicagoan Maxie longs to join the Black Panthers, regardless of what anyone thinks. Large print hardcover format.

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.

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.