Bushman lives! by Pinkwater, Daniel Manus 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin, 2012)

BTSB #: 719089 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.4 MG+RC: 6.3 6-8 Lexile: 910 F&P: Z+

Genres: Humorous Fiction Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Bildungsromans Artists - Fiction Adventure fiction Humorous fiction Chicago (Ill.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In the 1950s, Harold Knishke, a Chicago teenager with a special place in his heart for Bushman, the famed departed gorilla of the Lincoln Park Zoo, embarks on a hometown adventure, in a quest to become a great artist and figure out how he became the object of a famous folk song.

Finding Langston by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2018)

BTSB #: 222881 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 Bullying - 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.

Isabel Feeney, star reporter by Fantaskey, Beth 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016)

BTSB #: 322546 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-12   
AR: 5.5 MG RC: 5.5 3-5 Lexile: 840

Genres: Mystery Fiction

Subjects: Mystery fiction Reporters and reporting - Fiction Newspapers - Fiction Gangsters - Fiction Chicago (Ill.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In the 1920s, a ten-year-old newsgirl who aspires to be a reporter at the Chicago Tribune investigates the murder of a gangster.

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.