| The Length of a String Contributor(s): Weissman, Elissa Brent (Author) |
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ISBN: 0735229481 ISBN-13: 9780735229488 Publisher: Puffin Books OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Family - Adoption - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - African-american - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - Holocaust |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 730 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (0.60 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. Anna has left behind her family to escape from Holocaust-era Europe to meet a new family--two journeys, one shared family history, and the bonds that make us who we are. Perfect for fans of The Night Diary. 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. |