The Length of a String

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Dial Books
Published: 05/01/2018
ISBN: 9780735229471
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.40d
Award: Sydney Taylor Book Award - Honor Book

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 03/26/2018
School Library Journal 04/01/2018 pg. 124
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 196675 / Length of a String
Reading Level: 5 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 10