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Lesa Cline-Ransome
Language English Nationality American Education New York University, MA Alma mater Pratt Institute, BFA Genre middle grade fiction , picture books Years active 2003-now Notable works Finding Langston, Before She Was Harriet Notable awards Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award Spouse James E. Ransome Children 4 www
Lesa Cline-Ransome (née Cline) is an American author of picture books and middle grade novels , best known for her NAACP Image Award -nominated picture book biography of Harriet Tubman , Before She Was Harriet Finding Langston .
Personal life [ edit ]
Cline-Ransome grew up in Malden , Massachusetts .[1] [1]
She decided she wanted to become a writer during middle school and completed a summer workshop for teens with an interest in journalism at Suffolk University .[1] Pratt Institute .[1] [1]
She didn't pick up her interest in writing until she married her husband, James Ransome , who encouraged her to write books for children while he was working on illustrating his own first novel.[1] Simon & Schuster took a chance on what would later become her third published picture book, Satchel Paige .[1]
She lives with her husband and four children in Rhinebeck , New York .[2]
Middle grade
Finding Langston (Holiday House, 2018)
Leaving Lymon (Holiday House, 2020)
Being Clem (Holiday House, 2021)
Picture books
Bug Club Pro Guided Year 6 The Road to Freedom (Bug Club Guided) (Pearson Education Limited, 2017)
Bug Club Comprehension Y6 The Road to Freedom 12-pack (Bug Club Guided) (Pearson Education Limited, 2017)
illustrated by James E. Ransome
Quilt Alphabet (Holiday House, 2002)
Quilt Counting (Chronicle Books, 2002)
Satchel Paige (Aladdin, 2003)
Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist (Atheneum , 2003)
Young Pele: Soccer's First Star (Schwartz & Wade , 2007)
Helen Keller: The World in Her Heart (Collins Publishers , 2008)
Before There Was Mozart: The Story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George (Schwartz & Wade, 2011)
Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass (Simon & Schuster, 2012)
Light in the Darkness: A Story about How Slaves Learned in Secret (Jump at the Sun , 2013)
Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson: Taking the Stage as the First Black-And-White Jazz Band in History (Holiday House, 2014)
My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle's Journey to Alvin Aile y (Paula Wiseman Books , 2015)
Freedom's School (Paula Wiseman Books, 2015)
Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis Armstrong (Holiday House, 2016)
Before She Was Harriet (Holiday House, 2017)
Germs: Sickness, Bad Breath, and Pizza (Henry Holt, 2017)
Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams (Paula Wiseman Books, 2018)
illustrated by G. Brian Karas
Whale Trails, Before and Now , illustrated by G. Brian Karas (Henry Holt , 2015)
illustrated by Raul Colon
Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician (Paula Wiseman Books, 2019)
Nominated
2018 NAACP Image Award in Outstanding Literary Work - Children's category for Before She Was Harriet[3]
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References [ edit ]
^ "James Ransome" . Workshops for Children's Authors & Illustrators | Highlights Foundation . 2016-06-30. Retrieved 2019-04-12 .
^ Books, Harambee (2018-01-22). "2018 NAACP Image Awards: List of Winners" . Harambee Books & Artworks . Retrieved 2019-04-12 .
^ "2018 Award Winners and Honorees" . The Jane Addams Peace Association . 2018-04-30. Retrieved 2019-04-12 .
^ admin (2009-01-18). "The Coretta Scott King Book Awards" . Round Tables . Retrieved 2019-04-12 .
^ "Charlotte Zolotow Award" . ccbc.education.wisc.edu . Retrieved 2019-04-12 .
^ "Mathical Book Prizes 2021" (PDF) .
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