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This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration

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Jacqueline WoodsonNew York Times Bestselling, National Book Award and Newbery Honor winning writer–writes a wealthy story of a circle of relatives adapting to change as they hold on to the past and embrace the future. With Coretta Scott King Award–winning illustrator James Ransome.

Jaqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature

During the time of the Great Migration, millions of African American families relocated from the South, looking for better opportunities. The story of one circle of relatives’s journey north throughout the Great Migration starts with a bit of girl in South Carolina who finds a rope under a tree one summer. She has no idea the rope will turn out to be a part of her circle of relatives’s history. But for three generations, that rope is passed down, used for the whole thing from jump rope games to tying suitcases onto a car for the big move north to New York City, or even for a circle of relatives reunion where that first little girl is now a grandmother.

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