Books Worth Reading? Review of Finding Langston and Leaving Lymon by Lesa Cline-Ransome

Bright Wings: Children’s Books to Make the Heart Soar - A podcast by Charity Hill

As part of an ongoing initiative, Charity Hill reviews children's books. In this episode, Charity reviews two novels by Lesa Cline Ransome: Finding Langston and Leaving Lymon, which concern two different boys whose families move from South to North in the Great Migration. Charity appreciates Cline Ransom's handling of Langston's pivotal questions "Who am I?" and "Where have I come from?" Poetry and community reground and re-situate the lonesome Langston in his identity. Leaving Lymon concerns...

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