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Lesa’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Lesa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Lesa Cline-Ransome’s Followers (323)
1,526 books
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43 friends
113 books
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9 friends
6,690 books
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1,649 friends
3,258 books
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70 friends
7,481 books
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972 friends
1,066 books
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1,164 friends
18,708 books
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501 friends
798 books
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140 friends
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Lesa Cline-Ransome
Goodreads Author
Born
Malden, The United States
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Member Since
September 2009
Notes from my Summer Vacation
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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Nort
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Finding Langston
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2018
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Before She was Harriet (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books)
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2017
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5 editions
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Overground Railroad
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2020
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5 editions
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One Big Open Sky
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2024
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6 editions
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For Lamb
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2023
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9 editions
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Leaving Lymon
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2020
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8 editions
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Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams
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2018
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Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass (Paula Wiseman Books)
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2012
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7 editions
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The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne
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2020
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3 editions
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Light in the Darkness: A Story about How Slaves Learned in Secret
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2013
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2 editions
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Lesa’s Recent Updates
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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.”
― Finding Langston
― Finding Langston
“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”
― Finding Langston
― Finding Langston
“...(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.”
― Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist
― Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist
Polls
What book should we read in March?
You may write in titles, provided the book is a 2021 Newbery contender and already published.
You may write in titles, provided the book is a 2021 Newbery contender and already published.
chirp by Kate Messner
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Chirp!
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Village of Scoundrels by Margi Preus
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From the Desk of Zoe Washington
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Bloom by a Kenneth Oppel
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clean getaway
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From the desk of Zoe Washington
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Village of Scoundrels!
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race to the sun
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159 total votes
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| topics | posts | views | last activity | |
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| Children's Books: February 2011: Black History Month (Master List and General Discussion) | 138 | 119 | Feb 11, 2012 04:33PM | |
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| Nothing But Readi...: Ashley's Reading Challenges | 165 | 212 | Jan 07, 2019 05:11PM | |
| Children's Books: July 2019: Coretta Scott King Award | 13 | 18 | Jul 26, 2019 02:42PM | |
| Mock Caldecott 2026: March Reads - 2021 | 14 | 115 | Sep 13, 2020 06:44PM | |
| Nothing But Readi...: New 2 U Authors: 2019 | 106 | 487 | Mar 22, 2021 06:04AM | |
| Literary Fiction ...: Book potpourri: Controversy, Questions, Thoughts oh my! | 227 | 358 | Apr 26, 2021 02:57AM | |
| A Million More Pages: Historical/Historical Fiction | 58 | 93 | Dec 02, 2021 07:03PM | |
| Nothing But Readi...: Team Planes, Trains and Really Big Books | 4281 | 910 | Dec 12, 2021 11:49PM | |
| The Reading For P...: Brina's 2021 Reading Adventure | 26 | 42 | Dec 31, 2021 11:32AM |
