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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2013 | Grades 5-up
Gr 6–9—Kasienka and her mother have left their home in Poland to find the father and husband who left them a few years before. They arrive in the UK with some meager possessions and only a vague notion of where to find a man who may not wish to be found. Kasienka feels "all wrong," a feeling that only gets worse when she finds herself in the crosshairs of one of her school's alpha g...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2013
In this contemporary immigration story told in verse, almost-thirteen-year-old Kasienka and her mother move from their home in Gdansk, Poland, to Coventry, England, in search of Kasienka's father, who walked out on them two years before. At night, they go knocking on doors, looking for Tata, while during the day Kasienka is miserably lonely at school in a class with eleven-year-olds: "I thought, maybe, I'd be exotic, / Like a red squirrel ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
