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Author Chim, Wai, author.

Title Freedom swimmer / Wai Chim.

Publication Info. New York : Scholastic Press, [2021]
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Location Call No. Status
 Burlington Public Library - Teen  YF CHIM    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Teen  TEEN CHIM    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Teen  HISTORY YA CHIM    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Young Adult  Y CHIM    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Teen  TEEN CHIM, WAI    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Young Adult  JYA Chim    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Teen  YA Historical CHIM    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Faxon Branch - Teen  YA CHIM WAI    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Teen  TEEN FIC CHIM    Check Shelf
Edition First US edition.
Description 236 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's "Great Leap Forward", and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields. When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new arrivals...But despite his reservations, Ming befriends a charming city boy called Li. The two couldn't be more different, but slowly they form a bond over evening swims and shared dreams. But as the bitterness of life under the Party begins to take its toll on both boys, they begin to imagine the impossible: freedom"-- Publisher's description.
Subject Villages -- Juvenile fiction.
Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
Liberty -- Juvenile fiction.
Swimming -- Juvenile fiction.
Communism -- China -- Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.
China -- Juvenile fiction.
Villages -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Freedom -- Fiction.
Swimming -- Fiction.
Communism -- China -- Fiction.
China -- Fiction.
Communism. (OCoLC)fst00870421
Friendship. (OCoLC)fst00935174
Liberty. (OCoLC)fst00997251
Swimming. (OCoLC)fst01140328
Villages. (OCoLC)fst01166969
Young adult fiction. (OCoLC)fst01183080
China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Novels.
ISBN 9781338656138 (hardcover)
1338656139 (hardcover)
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