This Is the Rope ─ A Story from the Great Migration

Jacqueline Woodson--New York Times Bestselling, National Book Award and Newbery Honor winning author--writes a rich story of a family adapting to change as they hold on to the past and embrace the future. With Coretta 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.

Jacqueline Woodson?(www.jacquelinewoodson.com)?is the 2014 National Book Award Winner for her?New York Times?bestselling memoir?Brown 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. She?is the winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, the recipient of three Newbery Honors for?After Tupac and D Foster,?Feathers?and?Show Way, and a two-time finalist for the National Book Award for?Locomotion?and?Hush. Other awards include the Coretta Scott King Award and?Los Angeles Times?Book Prize for?Miracle's Boys. Her most recent books are her novel?Beneath a Meth Moon?and her picture books?Each Kindness?and?This Is the Rope. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.