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  Title

  Swimming to America

  Author

  Mead, Alice.  

  Publisher:

  Farrar, Straus and Giroux,

  Pub date:

  2005.

  Pages:

  153 p. ;

  ISBN:

  0374380473

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    Type/Location	Call Number	Copies	Format
    Youth: Fiction	J MEAD	1	Book

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  Personal Author:

  Mead, Alice.

  Title:

  Swimming to America / Alice Mead.

  Edition:

  1st ed.

  Publication info:

  New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

  Physical description:

  153 p. ; 22 cm.

  Summary:

  Eighth grader Linda Berati struggles to understand who she is within the context of her mother's secrecy about the family background, her discomfort with her old girlfriends, her involvement with the family problems of her Cuban-American friend Ramon, and an opportunity to attend a school for "free spirits" like herself.

  Children's subject:

  Immigrants--Fiction.

  Children's subject:

  Identity--Fiction.

  Children's subject:

  Self-perception--Fiction.

  Children's subject:

  Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

  key:

  ocm55871016

  ISBN:

  0374380473