Awards and Honors2019 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction Winner
2019 Coretta Scott King Award Honor, Author
ALSC Notable Children's Books - 2019
Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - 2019 CCBC Choices 2019 Choice: Fiction for Children
ILA Teachers' Choices - 2019
MRLS Cream of the Crop - 2019 Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth - 2018
CSMCL Best Books - 2018 Kirkus Best Books, Middle-Grade - 2018
NYPL Best Books for Kids - 2018 School Library Journal Best Books - 2018 Horn Book Fanfare - 2018
After eleven-year-old Langston moves with his father from Alabama to Chicago in 1946, he finds comfort in the local library and the poetry of Langston Hughes.