The Weight of Water is a book entirely written in poetry. You may think that this is boring, but actually it is one of my favourite books. The Weight of Water helps you understand how refugees feel and how hard it can be a foreigner in a strange country.
This book is about a Polish girl called Kasienka, who comes to England with her mother to find her long last father who abandoned them when she was very young. When she goes to a secondary school in Coventry, and she is treated as an outsider and an intruder. The girls at her school laugh at her and make fun of her, calling her a Polish lesbian, basing that on her her hairy armpits and short hair. There is a school bully called Claire who torments her and makes her life misery. Luckily she finds one adult she can confide in as she is suffering from depression. Various events happen in the book which taught me ways of dealing with bullies and also taught me that persevering with something that you really want can be very worthwhile. Sarah Crossan has portrayed a perspective on life in an amazingly accurate way that makes you cry, laugh and shout out loud. If anyone is looking for a book with a difference, this is the book for you.

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