Learning to Swim (19 page)

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2007 by Cheryl Klam
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Klam, Cheryl.

Learning to swim / Cheryl Klam. —1st ed.
p. cm.

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Steffie and her single mom, Barbie, have
moved yet again after a married boyfriend of Barbie's left her, so when Steffie starts
falling for the lifeguard at the country club where she has a summer job, she
worries that she is becoming too much like her mother.

eISBN: 978-0-307-49642-3
(Gibraltar lib. bdg.)

[1. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 2. Single-parent families—Fiction.
3. Adultery—Fiction. 4. Lifeguards—Fiction. 5. Swimming—Fiction.
6. Friendship—Fiction. 7. Maryland—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.K67677Lea 2007
[Fic]—dc22
2006004603

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