This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration

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Jacqueline Woodson--New York TimesBestselling, National Book Award andNewbery Honor winning author--writes arich story of a family adapting to change as they hold on to the past and embrace the future. WithCoretta Scott King Award winning illustrator James Ransome.

During the time of the Great Migration, millions of African American families relocated from the South, seeking better opportunities.The story of one family s journey north during the Great Migration starts with a little girl in South Carolina who finds a rope under a tree one summer. She has no idea the rope will become part of her family s history. But for three generations, that rope is passed down, used for everything from jump rope games to tying suitcases onto a car for the big move north to New York City, and even for a family reunion where that first little girl is now a grandmother."

ISBN10: 0606400966	ISBN13: 9780606400961
Format: Hardcover	Pages: 32
Publisher: Turtleback Books	GoodReads Rating: 4
Author: Jacqueline Woodson, James E. Ransome,

This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration

Read the most by: boys and girls

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