This Is the Rope

<b><b>Jacqueline Woodson</b><i><b>--</b>New York Times</i>&#160;Bestselling National Book Award and&#160;Newbery Honor winning author--writes a<b>&#160;rich story of a family adapting to change as they hold on to the past and embrace the future. With&#160;</b>Coretta Scott King Award&#150;winning illustrator James Ransome.<br></b><br>During the time of the Great Migration millions of African American families relocated from the South seeking better opportunities.&#160;The story of one family&#146;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&#146;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.