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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title Page; Contents; Dedication; Part 1; Leaving GdaÅ#x84;sk GÅ#x82;ówny; Stansted; Dwellings; First Day; Sixth Grade; The Bell; What I Try Not to Hear; Pale; Mute; Search Engine; Noise; Before England; Rain; Swimming; Disco; Deceiver; Road Atlas; The Odyssey; Kanoro; When I Go Swimming Again; Mistaken; Group Work; William; Small Secrets; Drip Tap; Meal Times; Wanted; Examinations; Novice; Christmas; Mamaâ#x80;#x99;s Mama; Snow Meal; Change; Happy Slapping; Games; Radio News Flash; Prize Night Envy; Anyone Else; In the Dark; Time to Grow; All Wrong; Karma |
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If I Were on the Swim Team They Might See MeName Day; The Hunt; Maybe; Art Class; Not Alone; Thursday; Grating; What William Says; Back in GdaÅ#x84;sk; Finding Tata; I Wish Tata Were Dead; Questions; Daredevil; I Try to Tell Mama; The Pity Club; Smokersâ#x80;#x99; Corner; Oh, to Be Musical; Floating; Rumors; When Boys Fight; Late Nights; Lifesaver; Higher; Dear William; First Kiss; Assembly; No Offense, But . . .; Wrath; Teachers; Misread; Talking; Part 2; Gummy Bears; Partners; Love Is a Large W; Kenilworth Castle; Lottery; Ending the Odyssey; The Bungalow; Cold Hot Chocolate; Blame |
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A Letter I Never SendThe Bell Jar; Skin Deep; I Didnâ#x80;#x99;t Mean to Go Back; Melanie; The Gospel According to Tata; Lady Godiva; Ready; Guilty; Motherless; Desperation; Hope; Split; Part 3; Dalilah; The Veil; July 7; In Mamaâ#x80;#x99;s Absence; Maybe I Should Not; Confidence; Practice; Ms. Morrow; Family; A Solution; Allegiance; Cracked; Sleepover; Cooking Stones; Good News; Vacant; Rebellion; Betrayal; Lies in the Dark; To London; Fear; Starting Blocks; Home; Gold; Metamorphosis; Forgiveness; Reunion; Treat; Resurrection; Side by Side; Epilogue; Butterfly; Acknowledgments; Glossary; eCopyright |
| 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. |
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Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 4.7 2 159789 |
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Accelerated Reader MG+ 4.7 2 159789 |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
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Immigrants -- England -- Coventry -- Juvenile fiction.
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Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction.
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Swimming -- Juvenile fiction.
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Alienation (Social psychology) -- Juvenile fiction.
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Novels in verse.
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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) |
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Ethnic relations. |
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Immigrants. |
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Mothers and daughters. |
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Novels in verse. |
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Swimming. |
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Coventry (England) -- Ethnic relations -- Juvenile fiction.
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Coventry (England) -- Fiction.
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England -- Fiction.
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England -- Coventry. |
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Juvenile works.
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Bildungsromans.
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Novels in verse.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9781619630475 : $39.00 |
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1619630478 : $39.00 |
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