num_pages: 128
description: A series of poems convey the feelings of Annie, a six-year-old girl whose sense of joy and security at the family's summer house is shattered when an older boy who lives nearby sexually abuses her.
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 Press