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Finding Langston volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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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.
2) Being Clem
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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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.
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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4th Grade Rocks
Black History Month - Tweens
Bullying Prevention Month Tweens
Social Justice Reading List by BCALA & ALSC (PreK-Gr. 8)
Black History Month - Tweens
Bullying Prevention Month Tweens
Social Justice Reading List by BCALA & ALSC (PreK-Gr. 8)
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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.
7) For Lamb
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"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...
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