Book
1 of 2 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: Children's Collection
The weight of water
Call Number
- J CROS (CEN, OSH)
Publication Information
New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.
Physical Description
211 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary
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
Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2012.
Subjects
- Immigrants > England > Coventry > Juvenile fiction.
- Mothers and daughters > Juvenile fiction.
- Swimming > Juvenile fiction.
- Alienation (Social psychology) > Juvenile fiction.
- Race relations > Juvenile fiction.
- Novels in verse.
- Immigrants > England > Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
- Swimming > Fiction.
- Race relations > Fiction.
- Coventry (England) > Ethnic relations > Juvenile fiction.
- Coventry (England) > Fiction.
- England > Fiction.