Lesa Cline-Ransome

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.--

Presents the life and accomplishments of Pele, the Brazillian who has been called the king of soccer.

Presents the life and accomplishments of Pelé, the Brazillian who has been called the king of soccer.

A story inspired by the life of the eighteenth-century black music master describes how in spite of racist taunts he dedicates himself to his musical education and dreams of performing for the king and queen of France.

Introduces the life of the African American bicycle racer who won the 1899 World Championship title.

Risking a whipping if they are discovered, Rosa and her mama sneak away from their slave quarters during the night to a hidden location in a field where they learn to read and write in a pit school.

"In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--

Relates the story of jazz innovator Louis Armstong's rise from street waif to international superstar.

"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 scholarship for a black college up north- if only he could curb...