| Description |
211 p. ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2012. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Novels in verse
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Immigrants -- England -- Fiction. |
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Mothers and daughters -- Fiction. |
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Swimming -- Fiction. |
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Race relations -- Fiction. |
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Alienation (Social psychology) -- Juvenile fiction.
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Coventry (England) -- Fiction. |
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England -- Fiction. |
| Genre/Form |
Bildungsromans.
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| ISBN |
9781599909677 hardcover |
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