Past Present: Giving Stories New Life With Lesa Cline-Ransome-- "Finding Langston"
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Browse Full-length Non-member TitlesIn this episode, Lesa Cline-Ransome reveals her research techniques for creating "Finding Langston," a historical novel set during The Great Migration and chronicles the childhood of Langston Hughes. Langston’s mother has just died when he and his father leave rural Alabama to make a new home in Chicago’s South Side. It’s lonely in the small apartment with just his father, and at school he’s bullied. Part of the "Past Present: Giving Stories New Life With Lesa Cline-Ransome" series.
Media Details
Runtime: 6 minutes 35 seconds
- Topic: Biographies, History
- Subtopic: Biography, Hughes, Langston, U.S. History - 1934-1945
- Grade/Interest Level: 4 - 8
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- Release Year: 2018
- Producer/Distributor: KidLit TV
- Series: Past Present: Giving Past Stories New Life With Lesa Cline-Ransome
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