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Finding Langston volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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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.
4) For Lamb
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"For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north--if only he could curb his impulsiveness and rebellious nature. Lamb herself is a quiet and studious girl. She is also naive. As she tentatively accepts the...
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Finding Langston volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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760L
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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.
6) Being Clem
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Finding Langston volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family's losses and struggles in 1940's Chicago.
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