The Weight of Water

By Sarah Crossan

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

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.