This Is The Rope

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Jacqueline Woodson--New York TimesaBestselling, National Book Award andaNewbery Honor winning author--writes aarich story of a family adapting to change as they hold on to the past and embrace the future. WithaCoretta 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.aThe 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.Jacqueline Woodson--New York TimesaBestselling, National Book Award andaNewbery Honor winning author--writes aarich story of a family adapting to change as they hold on to the past and embrace the future. WithaCoretta 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.aThe 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.
Jacqueline Woodsona(www.jacquelinewoodson.com)ais the 2014 National Book Award Winner for heraNew York Timesabestselling memoiraBrown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor Award, the NAACP Image Award and the Sibert Honor Award. Woodson was recently named the Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. Sheais the winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, the recipient of three Newbery Honors foraAfter Tupac and D Foster,aFeathersaandaShow Way, and a two-time finalist for the National Book Award foraLocomotionaandaHush. Other awards include the Coretta Scott King Award andaLos Angeles TimesaBook Prize foraMiracle's Boys. Her most recent books are her novelaBeneath a Meth Moonaand her picture booksaEach KindnessaandaThis Is the Rope. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.