The Length of a String by Elissa Brent Weissman

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The Length of a String by Elissa Brent Weissman

Imani is adopted, and she's ready to search for her birthparents. 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 meet her birthparents. 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. When her mom's grandmother--Imani's great-grandma Anna--passes away, Imani discovers an old diary among her books. It's Anna's diary from 1941, the year she was twelve--the year she fled Nazi-occupied Luxembourg alone, sent by her parents to seek refuge in Brooklyn. Written as a series of letters to the twin sister she had to leave behind, Anna's diary records her journey to America and her new life with an adopted family. Anna's diary and Imani's birthparent search intertwine to tell the story of two girls, each searching for family and identity in her own time and in her own way.
Weissman, Elissa Brent: - Elissa Brent Weissman is an award-winning author of novels for 8-to-12-year olds best known for the popular Nerd Camp series, which won the Cybils Award and was named a best summer read for middle graders in The Washington Post. The Short Seller, about a seventh-grade stock-trading whiz, was a Girls' Life must-read and featured on NPR's Here and Now. Elissa also created and edited Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids, a Junior Library Guild selection that was featured in Entertainment Weekly, The Los Angeles Times, and The Huffington Post. Named one of CBS Baltimore's Best Authors in Maryland, Elissa lives in Baltimore, where she teaches creative writing to children, college students, and adults.
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ISBN 13 9780735229488
ISBN 10 0735229481
Title The Length of a String
Author Elissa Brent Weissman
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published 2020-04-07
Number of pages 384
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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