

Swimming with Spies
Author: Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger
Narrator: Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger
Unabridged: 10 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Scholastic Audio Books
Published: 12/03/2024
Author: Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger
Narrator: Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger
Unabridged: 10 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Scholastic Audio Books
Published: 12/03/2024
Brilliant. Swimming with Spies is a captivating middle-grade novel about friendship, loss, community-building... and dolphins. Set during the 2014 annexation of Crimea, the novel will for sure help young people understand the complexity of Ukraine's history and culture and understand the ongoing Rus......more
FANTASTIC book for intermediate grades/middle school students. Realistic fiction yet also closely tied to the real events in the recent Ukraine-Russian conflict to indirectly inform of more modern world events. The meticulous, and slow burning development of characters lent itself to great classroom......more
Great young adult story. I thought it was going to be a true story, but the author clarified that it was not in her ending notes. Still it is a good story about how people can work together even if they have large differences.......more
4.5 stars for me. Great historical fiction book for kids about recent modern events. Swimming with spies shows what we can achieve when we work together to do what is right - even when we have different backgrounds and desires. It even shows the consequences that can come from doing what you think i......more
The ending was fantastic--action packed and a great conclusion. The rest of it was pretty boring. Sofiya changed her mind about every other chapter about whether she was mad at someone or not, which made her internal monologue really annoying at times. I was also hoping to learn a little more than I......more