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Author:

Crossan, Sarah.

Title:

The weight of water / by Sarah Crossan.

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

p. cm.

Subject:

Immigrants--Coventry--Coventry--Juvenile fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Juvenile fiction.
Swimming--Juvenile fiction.
Alienation (Social psychology)--Juvenile fiction.
Novels in verse.
Coventry (England)--Ethnic relations--Juvenile fiction.
Novels in verse.
Immigrants--England--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Swimming--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Coventry (England)--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.

Notes:

Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2012.

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.

ISBN:

1619630478 (ebook)
9781619630475 (ebook)
1599909677 (hardcover)
9781599909677 (hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)812614403

LCCN:

2012038645

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