The length of a string
(Book)
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Published
New York, NY : Dial Books For Young Readers, [2018].
Format
Book
ISBN
9780735229471, 0735229473
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 22 cm
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Status
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Tower Road Branch - Children's Fiction | JHIST WEISSMAN | In |
Waldo Branch - Children's Fiction | JHIST WEISSMAN | In |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Adopted children -- Family relationships -- Juvenile fiction.
Adoption -- Juvenile fiction.
African American girls -- Family relationships -- Juvenile fiction.
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Children's stories.
Families -- Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Juvenile fiction.
Novels.
Adoption -- Juvenile fiction.
African American girls -- Family relationships -- Juvenile fiction.
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Children's stories.
Families -- Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Juvenile fiction.
Novels.
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More Details
Published
New York, NY : Dial Books For Young Readers, [2018].
Language
English
ISBN
9780735229471, 0735229473
Accelerated Reader
MG
Level 5, 10 Points
Level 5, 10 Points
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
Twelve-year-old Imani, the only black girl in Hebrew school, is preparing for her bat mitzvah and hoping to find her birthparents when she discovers the history of adoption in her own family through her great-grandma Anna's Holocaust-era diary.
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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."--Publisher's description.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Weissman, E. B. (2018). The length of a string . Dial Books For Young Readers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Weissman, Elissa Brent. 2018. The Length of a String. Dial Books For Young Readers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Weissman, Elissa Brent. The Length of a String Dial Books For Young Readers, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Weissman, Elissa Brent. The Length of a String Dial Books For Young Readers, 2018.
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