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Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 2
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
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.
Author
Publisher
Disney/Jump at the Sun Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Risking a whipping if they are discovered, Rosa and her mama sneak away from their slave quarters during the night to a hidden location in a field where they learn to read and write in a pit school.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--
"1879, Mississippi. Young dreamer Lettie may have her head in the stars, but her body is on a covered wagon heading westward. Her father, Thomas, promises that Nebraska will be everything the family needs: an opportunity to claim the independence they’ve strived for over generations on their very own plot of land. But Thomas’...
5) 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.
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