Learning to Swim

by Ann Turner

Book Overview

A powerful true poetry memoir for anyone who has navigated the troubled waters of childhood and adolescence searching for a way to stay afloat, now in the new POINT. Unfolding in a series of exquisite... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439153093
• ISBN13: 9780439153096
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Scholastic Press
• Length: 115 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Speaks the experience of a young child

This is a unique book about the experience of sexual abuse, creatively written in poetic form, from the voice of a young child. Ann Turner eloquently shows what it is like for a child facing this kind of abuse. The book is so short you can read it in one sitting. The best thing about Ann's book is that it is written for a younger audience and in such a way that it encourages children to tell, even though it means facing painful feelings. As a survivor I want to thank Ann Turner for turning her painful experience into a work of art and as a way for other children to receive help.

If I were you I would read this good book!!!!!

laerning to swim is a good book ,I've never read any thing like it ,It's a different kind of book. It's based on a true story. It's about a little girl who goes away with her family on a vacation, to their summer house by a river. Some thing is happening to one of them and that something is mot good. If I had the time I would read it again. It's now one of my favorite books. I would recommand that you read it. It is only 113 pages , but by the way that it is written you will fly through it ,because you wont want to put it down.It's so good that when you'r reading it you can picture the whole story in your head and see whats happening as you read it . So if I were you I would read it.

& #65279;An Unfolding Trial

& #65279;Captured in narrative verse, this memoir chronicles one summer in the young girl's life. It captures the turmoil, fear, and anger of a young child forced to harbor a secret forced on her by the boy who lives down the road. The verse makes the shame of her ordeal accessible to a wide variety of readers: both adults and young adults. It paints a picture that everyone should see and brings to light the situation that everyone must be willing to acknowledge. In this case, as inothers, silence cannot be tolerated.

Useful for Psychology Classes

This book was recommended to me by an English Professor where I work as a Psychology Professor. I decided to read it to my students in Clinical Psychology and the impact was dramatic. Not only did it drive home the psychological/personal experience of childhood trauma, but provided hope as well. I recommend this book for use in undergraduate classes in Abnormal, Clinical, and Counseling Psychology. Its a beautifully written and important book...My thanks to the author and to the Prof who recommended it to me!