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Length of a String


No. of pages 384

Published: 2018

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Great for age 10-14 years

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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.

 

This book was recognised in the Older Readers category by the Sydney Taylor Book Award.

This book has been graded for interest at 10-14 years.

There are 384 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Penguin Putnam Inc .

Elissa Brent Weissman is the author of The Short Seller , Nerd Camp , and Standing for Socks as well as The Trouble with Mark Hopper . She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Visit her at EBWeissman. com.

This book has been nominated for the following award:

Sydney Taylor Book Award
This book was recognised in the Older Readers category by the Sydney Taylor Book Award.

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