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A review by kdawge
Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome
4.0
Historical fiction that grounds young reader's into the context of the Great Migration, showing with emotion and empathy what it was like for a young boy to not only have to pack up everything he knew in the south and trade it for a city up North, but also what it was like to be a black boy in 1946.
It also seamlessly introduces it's readers to the poetry of Langston Hughes and what the impact of his words could be on a young reader. I'm a middle school teacher and would highly recommend this to any teacher of the middle grades looking for a text that situates their student's in the time before the civil rights era while also introducing them to the prolific artists of our time that emerged from that period of history.
It also seamlessly introduces it's readers to the poetry of Langston Hughes and what the impact of his words could be on a young reader. I'm a middle school teacher and would highly recommend this to any teacher of the middle grades looking for a text that situates their student's in the time before the civil rights era while also introducing them to the prolific artists of our time that emerged from that period of history.