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 This Week’s Teen Book:
Swimming to America
by Alice Mead
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.
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