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Swimming to America by Mead, Alice is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Swimming to America about?
The quandary of the illegal immigrant Linda Berati, an eighth grader in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, knows that her parents are Albanian and her little sister American. But what is she? And how did she get to New York? Her parents evade her questions, fueling Linda's uneasiness about her identity. Only Ramon, a Cuban immigrant her age, seems to understand. Together, they escape to the hideout she and Ramon built. Then a strange, foreign man appears at the hideout, and right away Linda feels connected to him. She soon discovers that Ramon's wayward brother knows the man, and learns that immigrants - even illegal ones - come to the United States for many reasons. She determines to confront her mother and find out the truth about herself at last. The author, known for her empathic portrayals of children, shows what it's like to live the American dream in dread of losing it.
Who reads Swimming to America?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- Mead, Alice
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780374380472
- Category
- children's
- Subjects
- Children'S, Fiction, Juvenile
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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