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Being Clem

Lesa Cline-Ransome
4.31/5 (299 ratings)
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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 family receives news that his father has died in the infamous Port Chicago disaster, everything begins to fall apart. Clem's mother is forced to work long, tough hours as a maid for a wealthy white family. Soon Clem can barely recognize his home--and himself. Can he live up to his father's legacy?

In her award-winning trilogy, Lesa Cline-Ransome masterfully recreates mid-twentieth century America through the eyes of three boys: Langston, Lymon, and, now, Clem. Exploring the impact of the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, Jim Crow laws, and much more, Lesa's work manages at once to be both an intimate portrait of each boy and his family as well as a landscape of American history.

A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of the Year
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
A CCBC Choice
A Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Book!
A CSMCL Best Multicultural Children's Book of the Year
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
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ISBN10:
0823448967
ISBN13:
9780823448968
kindle Asin:
B08MQ5RBVV

Being Clem

Lesa Cline-Ransome
4.31/5 (299 ratings)
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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 family receives news that his father has died in the infamous Port Chicago disaster, everything begins to fall apart. Clem's mother is forced to work long, tough hours as a maid for a wealthy white family. Soon Clem can barely recognize his home--and himself. Can he live up to his father's legacy?

In her award-winning trilogy, Lesa Cline-Ransome masterfully recreates mid-twentieth century America through the eyes of three boys: Langston, Lymon, and, now, Clem. Exploring the impact of the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, Jim Crow laws, and much more, Lesa's work manages at once to be both an intimate portrait of each boy and his family as well as a landscape of American history.

A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of the Year
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
A CCBC Choice
A Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Book!
A CSMCL Best Multicultural Children's Book of the Year
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
0823448967
ISBN13:
9780823448968
kindle Asin:
B08MQ5RBVV

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