A Sydney Taylor Honor Book
A Tablet Magazinea�TMs Best Jewish Childrena�TMs Book
Imani knows exactly what she wants as her big bat mitzvah gift: to find her birth parents. She loves her family and her Jewish community in Baltimore, but she has always wondered where she came from, especially since shea�TMs black and almost everyone she knows is white. Then her moma�TMs grandmother a�" Imania�TMs great-grandma Anna a�" passes away, and Imani discovers an old journal among her books. Ita�TMs Annaa�TMs diary from 1941, the year she was twelve and fled Nazi-occupied Luxembourg alone, sent by her parents to seek refuge in Brooklyn, New York. Annaa�TMs diary records her journey to America and her new life with an adoptive family of her own. And as Imani reads the diary, she begins to see her family, and her place in it, in a whole new way.
Age Range: 10-14 | Grade Level: 5-9 | Lexile Measure: 730L