This is the Rope tells the story of one family's journey north during the Great Migration. It begins 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: Winner of a Newbery Honor Award and newly appointed as Artist-in-Residence at the Kennedy Center!
- Hardcover, 32 pages
- Reading Age: 5 to 8 years old