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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2018
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Summary: Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2020
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Summary: "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 a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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Summary: "A girl named Ruth Ellen tells the story of her family's train journey from North Carolina to New York City as part of the Great Migration"--Provided by publisher
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Summary: When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family's losses and strunggles in 1940's Chicago.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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Summary: "In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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Summary: "A girl named Ruth Anne tells the story of her family's train journey from North Carolina to New York City as part of the Great Migration"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2020