

Finding Langston
Author: Lesa Cline-Ransome
Narrator: Dion Graham
Unabridged: 2 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 08/14/2018
Categories: Children's Fiction, African American & Black Stories
Author: Lesa Cline-Ransome
Narrator: Dion Graham
Unabridged: 2 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 08/14/2018
Categories: Children's Fiction, African American & Black Stories
Lesa Cline-Ransome is an award-winning writer and editor who has written more than ten picture books for children, including two ALA Notable books. A graduate of the Pratt Institute, she holds a Master's Degree in Early Childhood and Elementary Education from NYU. Based in Rhinebeck, New York, she is married to artist and illustrator James E. Ransome, with whom she frequently collaborates.
This is such a special book, well-deserving of its Coretta Scott King Honor Medal. Cline-Ransome packed so much in a scant 112 pages!! Of course, what appealed to my nerdy self was all the library love. It is a love letter to the George Cleveland Hall branch of the Chicago Public Library, where Lang......more
One of my top favorite middle grade readers of the year. Beautifully written, warm and one children will enjoy. I hope it wins an award or two!......more
Lots of love for this heartfelt novel featuring a boy who has been transplanted from rural Alabama to Chicago in the middle of the Great Migration. Not only is he living in a new setting, he is also missing his mama who died just before his daddy decided they should move. While trying to evade a gan......more
It seems like I am reading all the books that would make me cry. This one is so sad and beautiful. But also so hopeful and wholesome. The story is about a little kid who is getting bullied as he struggles in his school making sure he is no trouble to anyone. He just doesn't want to disappoint his fath......more
I’m very sorry to say that I didn’t enjoy this book at all. It was a very short read and still, I had to force myself to finish it. The story takes place in 1946 Chicago, set against the backdrop of the Great Migration, where 6 million African Americans left the South to move to Northern states. Orig......more