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Lesa Cline-Ransome

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Born

Malden, The United States

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http://www.lesaclineransome.com/

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Children's, Historical Fiction, Young Adult

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September 2009

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The vacation season has arrived and I haven’t booked a thing. Not even considered lounging on sun-kissed beaches or hiking wondrous trails. To be honest, those were rarely the vacations that a family of six embarked upon. Our vacations were more car than Caribbean affairs, where we’d pack a cooler, fill up the gas tank of our Suburban,

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Miami, Florida vacation, 2009

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Average rating: 4.27 · 17,017 ratings · 3,689 reviews · 38 distinct works • Similar authors

	Finding Langston 4.31 avg rating — 5,226 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Before She was Harriet by Lesa Cline-Ransome (Goodreads Author), James E. Ransome (Illustrator) 4.49 avg rating — 2,444 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Big Open Sky 4.11 avg rating — 1,194 ratings — published 2024 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Overground Railroad by Lesa Cline-Ransome (Goodreads Author), James E. Ransome (Illustrator) 4.30 avg rating — 966 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For Lamb 4.49 avg rating — 796 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leaving Lymon 4.34 avg rating — 774 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams by Lesa Cline-Ransome (Goodreads Author), James E. Ransome (Illustrator) 4.26 avg rating — 755 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass (Paula Wiseman Books) by Lesa Cline-Ransome (Goodreads Author), James E. Ransome (Illustrator) 4.17 avg rating — 477 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne by Lesa Cline-Ransome (Goodreads Author), John Parra (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.32 avg rating — 454 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Light in the Darkness: A Story about How Slaves Learned in Secret by Lesa Cline-Ransome (Goodreads Author), James E. Ransome (Illustrator) 4.28 avg rating — 368 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process

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“It's better to read in the library. Sitting at my favorite table by the window reading and listening to the sound of other folks turning pages makes me feel like I'm in a house full of company I don't have to talk to.”
― Lesa Cline-Ransome, Finding Langston

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“The lady said the Langston who wrote these words is a poet. Seems more like a magician to me, pulling words from my heart I never knew I had" -Langston”
― Lesa Cline-Ransome, Finding Langston

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“...(he) had his own set of rules: "ride clean and ride fair." Asked by reporters how he managed to keep calm despite the attacks by other cyclists, Marshall answered, "I simply ride away.”
― Lesa Cline-Ransome, Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist

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From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks

34 votes 21.4%

When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller

26 votes 16.4%

Clean Getaway by Nic Stone

24 votes 15.1%

Leaving Lymon by Lesa Cline-Ransome

13 votes 8.2%

chirp by Kate Messner (write-in)

12 votes 7.5%

Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

10 votes 6.3%

The Mystwick School of Musicraft by Jessica Khoury

9 votes 5.7%

Chirp! (write-in)

8 votes 5.0%

Village of Scoundrels by Margi Preus (write-in)

7 votes 4.4%

From the Desk of Zoe Washington (write-in)

6 votes 3.8%

Bloom by a Kenneth Oppel (write-in)

4 votes 2.5%

clean getaway (write-in)

2 votes 1.3%

From the desk of Zoe Washington (write-in)

2 votes 1.3%

Village of Scoundrels! (write-in)

1 vote 0.6%

race to the sun (write-in)

1 vote 0.6%

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