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Freedom swimmer / Wai Chim.
"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.
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- ISBN: 9781338656138 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1338656139 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 236 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First US edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
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