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The weight of water
- Title
- The weight of water / Sarah Crossan.
- Author
- Crossan, Sarah.
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 13-5349 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- 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.
- Subjects
- Race relations > Fiction
- Novels in verse
- Mothers and daughters > Juvenile fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Swimming > Fiction
- England > Fiction
- Mothers and daughters > Fiction
- Coventry (England) > Fiction
- Coventry (England) > Ethnic relations > Juvenile fiction
- Immigrants > England > Fiction
- Swimming > Juvenile fiction
- Alienation (Social psychology) > Juvenile fiction
- Immigrants > England > Coventry > Juvenile fiction
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans.
- Note
- Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2012.
- Call Number
- JFD 13-5349
- ISBN
- 9781599909677 (hardcover)
- 1599909677 (hardcover)
- 9781619630475 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- 1619630478 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2012038645
- OCLC
- 812614403
- Author
- Crossan, Sarah.
- Title
- The weight of water / Sarah Crossan.
- Imprint
- New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 13-5349