Swimming Toward a Dream: Yusra Mardini's Incredible Journey from Refugee to Olympic Swimmer -- Reem Faruqi, Hardcover Children's All Ages - Plays / Drama Screamingly funny

Screamingly funny

as adept at the guitar as he is at fighting crime

The journey that emerges is a stylish and nuanced inquiry into the connection between place and identity--a tale of liberation

represents the opponents and is pressuring him to join her

now she is a tempest of rage and malice

Swimming Toward a Dream: Yusra Mardini's Incredible Journey from Refugee to Olympic Swimmer -- Reem Faruqi, Hardcover Children's All Ages - Plays / Drama Screamingly funnyGrowing up in Damascus, the pool was Yusra Mardini's happy place. She learned to swim before she could walk. And with swimming came a dream to compete in the Olympic games. But when war came to Syria, Yusra's home and her pool were no longer safe. Yusra and her sister set out on a harrowing journey, crossing the sea in search of safety. In the inspirational tale that follows, Yusra's courageous spirit shines. Crammed on a too small refugee boat,