The Swimmers: A Novel (Carnegie Medal for Excellence Winner) -- Julie Otsuka, Paperback Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction needs to crack an unbreakable

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The Swimmers: A Novel (Carnegie Medal for Excellence Winner) -- Julie Otsuka, Paperback Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction needs to crack an unbreakableNATIONAL BESTSELLER CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER From the award winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel that "starts as a catalogue of spoken and unspoken rules for swimmers at an aquatic center but unfolds into a powerful story of a mother's dementia and her daughter's love" (The Washington Post). The swimmers are unknown to one another except through their private routines (slow lane, medium