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Chim, Wai.
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Villages -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Liberty -- Fiction.
Swimming -- Fiction.
Communism -- China -- Fiction.
China -- Fiction.
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Chim, Wai.
Villages -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Liberty -- Fiction.
Swimming -- Fiction.
Communism -- China -- Fiction.
China -- Fiction.
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Freedom swimmer / Wai Chim.
by
Chim, Wai.
Scholastic Press, 2021.
Call #:
FICTION
CHI
Subjects
Villages
--
Fiction
.
Friendship
--
Fiction
.
Liberty
--
Fiction
.
Swimming
--
Fiction
.
Communism
--
China
--
Fiction
.
China
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9781338656138 (hc.)
Edition:
First US ed.
Description:
236 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
First published in Austrailia in 2016 by Allen & Unwin.
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"--From publisher.
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