Title: The Weight of Water
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.
Subjects: Children's fiction, England, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Swimming, fiction, Race relations, fiction, Immigrants, Juvenile fiction, Mothers and daughters, Swimming, Alienation (Social psychology), Novels in verse, Ethnic relations, Young adult fiction