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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2002
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Finding Langston Trilogy

1 - Finding Langston (Aug-2018)
2 - Leaving Lymon (Jan-2020)
3 - Being Clem (Aug-2021)

Book List in Order: 15 titles





  • HOW DID A POOR BOY named Edson -- who kicked rocks down roads and dribbled balls made from rags -- go on to become Pelé, the greatest soccer player of all time? While other kids memorized letters, Edson memorized the scores of soccer matches. And ...



  • Leroy "Satchel" Paige was the first African American to pitch in a Major League World Series, and the first Negro Leaguer to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Fans of all ages can relive the dream as they hear about Satch's talents, feisty ...



  • The musical superstar of 18th-century France was Joseph Boulogne--a black man. This inspiring story tells how Joseph, the only child of a black slave and her white master, becomes "the most accomplished man in Europe." After traveling from his native...



  • Rosa and her mama go to school together -- in the dark of night, silently, afraid that any noise they hear is a patroller on the lookout for escaped slaves. Their school is literally a hole in the ground, where they and other slaves of all ages gathe...



  • When Lizzie's parents are granted their freedom from slavery, Mama says its time for Lizzie and her brother Paul to go to a real school--a new one, built just for them. Lizzie can't wait. The scraps of learning she has picked up here and there have j...



  • "My father and I live for the sea. He is the captain of the Cuffee Whale Boat and today I am his First Mate." Whale-watching is a hugely popular pastime: at least 13 million people take whale-watching trips each year. But in the past, whaling ship...



  • In a debut historical novel about the Great Migration a boy discovers Chicago's postwar South Side and the poetry of Langston Hughes. When 11-year-old Langston's mother dies in 1946, he and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago's brown belt ...



  • A window into a child's experience of the Great Migration from the award-winning creators of Before She Was Harriet and Finding Langston. As she climbs aboard the New York bound Silver Meteor train, Ruth Ellen embarks upon a journey toward a n...






  • Behind every bad boy is a story worth hearing and at least one chance for redemption. It's 1946 and Lymon, uprooted from his life in the Deep South and moved up North, needs that chance. Lymon's father is, for the time being, at Parchman F...



  • The final novel in the award-winning Finding Langston trilogy from Coretta Scott King Author Honoree and Scott O'Dell Award medalist Lesa Cline-Ransome. Clem can make anybody, even his grumpy older sisters, smile with his jokes. But when his f...



  • An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South.For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb’s mother is...



  • An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South.For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb’s mothe...





  • In this stirring and powerfully illustrated story, an enslaved young man uses his ability to read and write to educate others in the pursuit of freedom.Back inside the store I write up receipts for Master’s deliveries for Master’s orders ...


Award-Winning Books by Lesa Cline-Ransome

Finding Langston
2019 Scott O Dell Award for Historical Fiction -- Historical Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lesa Cline-Ransome has published 15 books.

The next book by Lesa Cline-Ransome, They Call Me Teach, will be published in September 2024.

The first book by Lesa Cline-Ransome, Quilt Alphabet, was published in September 2002.

Yes. Lesa Cline-Ransome has 1 series.