The weight of water
By: Sarah Crossan
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781408823002; 9780545695039
Subjects: Immigrants; Polish people; Juvenile fiction; Family problems; Ethnic relations; Fiction; Bullying; Mothers and daughters; Alienation (Social psychology); Immigrant children; Children of separated parents; Novels in verse; Swimming
Description: 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.
Notes: Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 4.7 2.0 159789.