The Weight of Water

About this book

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

• alienation (social psychology)
• children's fiction
• england, fiction
• ethnic relations
• immigrants
• juvenile fiction
• mothers and daughters
• mothers and daughters, fiction
• novels in verse
• race relations, fiction
• swimming
• swimming, fiction
• young adult fiction