| The Length of a String Contributor(s): Weissman, Elissa Brent (Author) |
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ISBN: 0735229473 ISBN-13: 9780735229471 Publisher: Dial Books OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Family - Adoption - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - African-american - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - Holocaust |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2017043498 |
| Lexile Measure: 730 |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.8" W x 8.3" (1.05 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Holocaust - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 196675 Reading Level: 5.0 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 10.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Imani is adopted, and she's ready to search for her birth parents. But when she discovers the diary her Jewish great-grandmother wrote chronicling her escape from Holocaust-era Europe, Imani begins to see family in a new way. Imani knows exactly what she wants as her big bat mitzvah gift: to find her birth parents. She loves her family and her Jewish community in Baltimore, but she has always wondered where she came from, especially since she's black and almost everyone she knows is white. Then her mom's grandmother--Imani's great-grandma Anna--passes away, and Imani discovers an old journal among her books. It's Anna's diary from 1941, the year she was twelve and fled Nazi-occupied Luxembourg alone, sent by her parents to seek refuge in Brooklyn, New York. Anna's diary records her journey to America and her new life with an adoptive family of her own. And as Imani reads the diary, she begins to see her family, and her place in it, in a whole new way. |