Finding Langston
Author
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
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.
3) Being Clem
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 3
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family's losses and strunggles in 1940's Chicago.