Title Being Clem / Lesa Cline-Ransome.

Publication Info.

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection	CH/YA Fic cline Bei 2021	Available	---

Edition	First edition.
Description	248 pages ; 22 cm.
	age Children
Series	Finding Langston trilogy ; 3
	Cline-Ransome, Lesa. Finding Langston trilogy ; 3.
Summary	When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family's losses and struggles in 1940's Chicago.
	1944. Clem's father is away, serving as a sailor in World War II. When the family receives news that his father has died in the infamous Port Chicago explosion in San Francisco, everything begins to fall apart. Clem's mother is forced to work long, tough hours as a maid for a wealthy white family. The obstacles put in place by racial injustice seem insurmountable. Soon Clem can barely recognize his home-- and himself. Can he live up to his father's legacy? -- adapted from jacket
Audience	Ages 8-12. Holiday House.
	Grades 4-6. Holiday House.
Study Program	F & P X.
Subject	Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944 -- Juvenile fiction.
	Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Juvenile fiction.
	Families.
	Illinois -- Chicago.
	Racism -- Juvenile fiction.
	Racism.
	Fathers -- Death -- Juvenile fiction.
	Fathers -- Death.
	African American boys -- Juvenile fiction.
	African American boys.
	California -- Port Chicago.
Chronological Term	1944
Genre/Form	Historical fiction.
	Fiction.
	Juvenile works.
Subject	Racism.
	Fathers.
ISBN	9780823446049 (hardcover)
	0823446042 (hardcover)