Finding Langston
Publisher
Holiday House
Publication Year
2018
ISBN
9780823439607
Pages
107 pages
Genre
historical
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
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.
Grade Level
3-5; 6-8
Lexile Measure
760L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; Culture/Ethnicity; Single parent; Family member death; Race discrimination; Immigrants and refugees; single father; death of a mother; racism; prejudice; migration; migrant child; migrant family
Main Character
male child
Race/Ethnicities
Black
Family Formation
single father
Awards
Audie Award, 2019, Finalist, Middle Grade
Coretta Scott King Book Award, 2019, Honor, Author
Cybils Awards, 2018, Nominee, Middle Grade Fiction
Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, 2019, Winner
Keywords
bullying; Great Migration; Alabama; Chicago, Illinois; public library; poetry; Langston Hughes
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Cline-Ransome, Lesa, "Finding Langston" (2018). Diverse Families. 1874.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1874