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Copyright © 2018 by Elissa Brent Weissman
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Weissman, Elissa Brent, author.
Title: The length of a string / by Elissa Brent Weissman.
Description: New York, NY : Dial Books, [2018] | Summary: Twelve-year-old Imani, the only black girl in Hebrew school, is preparing for her bat mitzvah and hoping to find her birth parents when she discovers the history of adoption in her own family through her great-grandma Anna’s Holocaust-era diary. Identifiers: LCCN 2017043498 | ISBN 9780735229471 (hardback) | ISBN 9780735229495 (epub)
Subjects: | CYAC: Adoption—Fiction. | Identity—Fiction. | Families—Fiction. | Jews—United States—Fiction. | African Americans—Fiction. | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)—Fiction. | BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Adoption. | JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American. | JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Holocaust.
Classification: LCC PZ7.W448182 Le 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017043498
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Jacket design by Tony Sahara