The girl who swam to Atlantis, Elle Thornton
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Classification
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Creator
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Subject
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- Rivers -- Fiction
- Children of military personnel -- North Carolina -- Fiction
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- Swimming + Coaching -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- North Carolina -- Fiction
- Lynching -- Mississippi -- Fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Fiction
- Courage -- Fiction
- Local author
- Inspiration -- Fiction
Content
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Label
The girl who swam to Atlantis, Elle Thornton
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary form
novels
Main title
The girl who swam to Atlantis
Oclc number
794270400
Responsibility statement
Elle Thornton
Summary
Twelve-year-old Gabriella lives on a North Carolina military base in 1957, where she meets an African-American marine named Hawkins who coaches her to swim in the river where two years earlier, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till's body was tossed subsequent to his lynching for whistling at a white woman. As Gabriella's swimming improves, she finds her strength with the help of Hawkins and inspiration from Emmett's spirit in the river's waters
Target audience
adolescent
Incoming Resources
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