TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chim,Wai
TI  - Freedom swimmer
SN  - 9781338656138
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Scholastic Press
KW  - Liberty
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Villages
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Swimming
KW  - Communism
KW  - China
KW  - Young adult fiction
KW  - Novels
KW  - lcgft
N2  - "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"--
ER  -