num_pages: 113
description: A powerful true poetry memoir for anyone who has navigated the troubled waters of childhood and adolescence searching for a way to stay afloat, now in the new POINT.Unfolding in a series of exquisite narrative poems, this is the haunting true story of a tragic summer in a young girl's life. Annie is supposed to be having a carefree summer -- but instead she must face the unwanted advances of an older boy in the neighborhood, who threatens her if she tells. It isn't until Annie's mother pries out the secret that Annie is released from her horror and isolation and can slowly begin to heal.
language: English
title: Learning to Swim
titlecomplete: Learning to Swim
genres: Young Adult, Teen, Fiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 375
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Massachusetts Book Award
category: Children's/Young Adult Literature
publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks