Lesa Cline-Ransome
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
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
Pub. Date
[2020]
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
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Louis Armstrong has been called the most important improviser in the history of jazz. Although his New Orleans neighborhood was poor in nearly everything else, it was rich in superb music. Young Louis took it all in, especially the cornet blowing of Joe "King" Oliver. But after a run in with the police, 11-year-old Louis was sent away to the Colored Waif s Home for Boys where he became a disciplined musician in the school s revered marching band....
9) Being Clem
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
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.
11) For lamb
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Publisher Annotation: An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South.
12) Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson: taking the stage as the first black-and- white jazz band in history
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the first widely seen integrated jazz performance: the debut of the Benny Goodman quartet with Teddy Wilson in 1936 Chicago.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The award winners behind Before She Was Harriet explore the story of the saxophone, from its beginnings in 1840s Belgium all the way to New Orleans, where an instrument in a pawn shop caught the eye of musician Sidney Bechet and became the iconic symbol it is today"--
15) Freedom's school
Author
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
Hungry for learning, Lizzie and her brother Paul attend a new school built for freed slaves.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A young girl helps her father, the captain of a whale boat, on a whale-watching trip and relates how her ancestors hunted whales in the same waters. Includes information on the history of whaling, whale-watching, and the conservation movement to ensure the safety of whales.