Finding Langston, Hardcover/Lesa Cline-Ransome

Descriere

In a debut historical novel about the Great Migration a boy discovers Chicago's postwar South Side and the poetry of Langston Hughes. When 11-year-old Langston's mother dies in 1946, he and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago's brown belt as a part of what came to be known as the Great Migration. It's lonely in the small apartment with just the two of them, and at school Langston is bullied. But his new home has one fantastic thing. Unlike the whites-only library in Alabama, the local 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.

Despre autor

Lesa Cline-Ransome

scriitoare americană

Lesa Cline-Ransome este o autoare americană de cărți ilustrate și romane pentru copii de vârstă mijlocie, fiind cea mai cunoscută pentru cartea ilustrată biografia „Before She Was Harriet”, nominalizată la Premiul Imagine NAACP, și pentru romanul său pentru copii de vârstă mijlocie, „Finding Langston”.