| NOTE |
Accelerated Reader MG 4.5 3 195865 |
| Summary |
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. |
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When eleven-year-old Langston's father moves them from their home in Alabama to Chicago's Bronzeville district, it feels like he's giving up everything he loves. It's 1946. Langston's mother has just died, and now they're leaving the rest of his family and friends. He misses everything -- Grandma's Sunday suppers, the red dirt roads, and the magnolia trees his mother loved. In the city, they live in a small apartment surrounded by noise and chaos. It doesn't feel like a new start, or a better life. At home he's lonely, his father always busy at work; at school he's bullied for being a country boy. But Langston's new home has one fantastic thing. Unlike the whites-only library in Alabama, the Chicago 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. |
| Audience |
Grades 3-7. |
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760L Lexile |
| Awards |
Coretta Scott King Author Honor, 2019. |
| Subject |
Mothers -- Death -- Juvenile fiction.
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Books and reading -- Juvenile fiction.
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Poetry -- Juvenile fiction.
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Libraries -- Juvenile fiction.
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Moving, Household -- Juvenile fiction.
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Bullying -- Juvenile fiction.
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African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
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Single-parent families -- Juvenile fiction.
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Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780823445820
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9780823439607
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0823439607
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1544448759
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