The length of a string, by Elissa Brent Weissman
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The length of a string, by Elissa Brent Weissman
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Index
no index present
Literary Form
novels
Main title
The length of a string
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1000232980
Responsibility statement
by Elissa Brent Weissman
Summary
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"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
Target audience
pre adolescent
Creator
Subject
- African American girls + Family relationships -- Juvenile fiction
- Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Juvenile fiction
- Adoption -- Juvenile fiction
- Fictional Work
- Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Novels
- Identité -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Families -- Juvenile fiction
- Filles noires américaines + Relations familiales -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Families -- Fiction
- Adoption -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Historical fiction
- Identity -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Juvenile fiction
- Jews -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Juvenile fiction
- Adopted children + Family relationships -- Juvenile fiction
- Noirs américains -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Children's stories
- Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Enfants adoptés + Relations familiales -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Jews -- United States -- Fiction
- Baltimore (Md.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Familles -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Juvenile fiction
- Children's stories, American -- 21st century
- Romans
- United States -- Ethnic relations -- Juvenile fiction
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- African American girls + Family relationships -- Juvenile fiction
- Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Juvenile fiction
- Adoption -- Juvenile fiction
- Fictional Work
- Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Novels
- Identité -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Families -- Juvenile fiction
- Filles noires américaines + Relations familiales -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Families -- Fiction
- Adoption -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Historical fiction
- Identity -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Juvenile fiction
- Jews -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Juvenile fiction
- Adopted children + Family relationships -- Juvenile fiction
- Noirs américains -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Children's stories
- Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Enfants adoptés + Relations familiales -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Jews -- United States -- Fiction
- Baltimore (Md.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Familles -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Juvenile fiction
- Children's stories, American -- 21st century
- Romans
- United States -- Ethnic relations -- Juvenile fiction
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- Author1
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