Title: Giant
Description: How do you fit in in a new country when you're a "giant freak," you don't speak the language and bizarre things are happening to your motherland as well as to your body? In a candid and peculiar voice, Aga Maksimowska tells the story of an eleven-year-old girl in an adult's body whose coming of age in a country undergoing a revolution is interrupted by a sudden and cruel move to Canada.
Subjects: Preteens, Fiction, Immigrants, Identity (Psychology), History