This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration Juvenile Fiction Family - Parents Social Themes - Values & Virtues Social Themes - Emotions & Feelings First it's her best friend

First it's her best friend

she chose to support all-black musicals instead

The Great Migration concludes with a bibliography

Age Range:    3 - 6

Pinkus' skin was the color of polished mahogany

This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration Juvenile Fiction Family - Parents Social Themes - Values & Virtues Social Themes - Emotions & Feelings First it's her best friendHardcover Paperback The story of one familys 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 familys 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