

Leaving Lymon
Author: Lesa Cline-Ransome
Narrator: Dion Graham
Unabridged: 4 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 04/06/2020
Categories: Children's Fiction, Historical Stories
Author: Lesa Cline-Ransome
Narrator: Dion Graham
Unabridged: 4 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 04/06/2020
Categories: Children's Fiction, Historical 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 companion novel to "Finding Langston" gives us another perspective on the Great Migration. The behavior of Lymon, the bully, was appalling and we applauded when the school took action. Now we see, as the iconic Paul Harvey would say --"the rest of the story." Lymon's story begins in Mississippi......more
If I thought I loved Finding Langston (the companion novel to this) then man alive I don't know what verb to use to explain my feelings on this one. This book was everything. To the point that every time I try to talk about it I get teary. Lesa Cline-Ransome has a way of making me love and cherish t......more
3.75 stars, rounded up "'Before you start huffing and puffing, I got something I want to tell you.' Mr Eugene turned my chair to the side and sat in the chair next to mine. 'A few years back, when I was your age' - I smiled even though I didn't want to - 'I got into a little bit of trouble', he said......more