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The weight of water / Sarah Crossan.

Crossan, Sarah. (Author).

Summary:

Twelve-year-old Kasienka and her mother have immigrated to Coventry, England from Poland, searching for Kasienka's father, but everyone is unfriendly except for an African neighbor and a boy Kasienka meets at the swimming pool, which is her only refuge from an alien society.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781599909677 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 1599909677 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 211 p. ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2012.
Subject: Immigrants > England > Coventry > Juvenile fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Juvenile fiction.
Swimming > Juvenile fiction.
Alienation (Social psychology) > Juvenile fiction.
Novels in verse.
Novels in verse.
Immigrants > England > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Swimming > Fiction.
Race relations > Fiction.
Coventry (England) > Ethnic relations > Juvenile fiction.
Coventry (England) > Fiction.
England > Fiction.
Genre: Bildungsromans.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at scottsboropl.

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