Finding Langston (The Finding Langston Trilogy)

Finding Langston (The Finding Langston Trilogy)

<b><b>A Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book</b><br><b>Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction</b><br><br><b>When eleven-year-old Langston's father moves them from their home in Alabama to Chicago's Bronzeville district, it feels like he's giving up everything he loves. </b></b><br><br>It's 1946. Langston's mother has just died, and now they're leaving the rest of his family and friends. He misses everything--Grandma's Sunday suppers, the red dirt roads, and the magnolia trees his mother loved.<br><br>In the city, they live in a small apartment surrounded by noise and chaos. It doesn't feel like a new start, or a better life. At home he's lonely, his father always busy at work; at school he's bullied for being a country boy. <br>But Langston's new home has one fantastic thing. Unlike the whites-only library in Alabama, the Chicago Public Library welcomes everyone. There, hiding out after school, Langston discovers another Langston--a poet whom he learns inspired his mother enough to name her only son after him. <br><br>Lesa Cline-Ransome, author of the Coretta Scott King Honor picture book <i>Before She Was Harriet</i>, has crafted a lyrical debut novel about one boy's experiences during the Great Migration. Includes an author's note about the historical context and her research.<br><br>Don't miss the companion novel, <i>Leaving Lymon</i>, which centers on one of Langston's classmates and explores grief, resilience, and the circumstances that can drive a boy to become a bully-- and offer a chance at redemption. <br><br><b>A Junior Library Guild selection!</b><br><b>A CLA Notable Children's Book in Language Arts</b><br><b>A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, with 5 Starred Reviews</b><br><b>A School Library Journal Best Book of 2018</b>