Finding Langston

By Lesa Cline-Ransome

Subjects: Chicago (Ill.), Moving, household, fiction, Single-parent families, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Household Moving, Bullying, fiction, Books and reading, Bullying, Books and reading, fiction, Fiction, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Children's fiction, Single-parent families, fiction, Poetry, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Poetry, History

Description: When 11-year-old Langston s mother dies in 1946, he and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago s brown belt. 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.