1. Group A - mpontbriand25

In my book Out of Nowhere by Maria Padian is about a small town in Maine flooding with Somali refugees looking for a better way at life. The soccer team gets a jolt of inspiration and outstanding play from their new students who are very talented at the sport. The four Somali guys have a hard time with communication because they're non-English speaking, and that is a struggle for the teammates because communication is key.

A character who is judge is Saeed, they said "He was kind of skinny you noticed. like you could make out the skeleton just beneath the surface." Judging him on his appearance and wondering if even eats. 

In my book Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha, there is a specific race group that gets targeted. People wrongly accuse black people of being criminals. "You can be an unarmed black boy, and someone can just come in and kill you with the full blessing of the law." (Cha 18).

In my book Refugee by Alan Gratz it focuses on 3 different characters, Josef, Mahmoud, and Isabel who are all dealing with different scenarios. In my book Josef is living in Germany during the holocaust, he is a 12 year old boy and hes laying down getting ready for bed, and his house gets raided by the Nazis, Josef gets thrown on the floor next to his 6 year old sister, and his dad got arrested for practicing the Jewish law. Josef tried to fight to get his dad back but they threatened to take him to a concentration camp and they couldnt do anything about his dad getting taken away. My next character is Mahmoud, Throughout what i’ve read he is dealing with the Syrian government attacking their own civilians, its gotten to the point to where the civilians are fighting with other civilians and its a constant battle. Mahmoud’s house is destroyed and after that they try to escape. My last and final character is Isabel, from what ive read she is dealing with a corrupt government after the fall of the Soviet Union. Her family and their neighbors are trying to escape by boat and go to the USA. They trades items that they couldnt bring on the boat for gasoline and they prepared to go to the USA.

A character that is getting judged is Mahmoud and Kahlil, and my quote shows this, “Mahmoud had been going to meet his best friend, Khalid. Down a side street just like this one, Mahmoud found Khalid getting beaten up by two older boys.”(Gratz 16) The reason there is conflict is because he's Syrian and the rebels, and Soviets all have conflict because they were in a war so they weren't liked by the other groups.

In my book "Out of Nowhere" by Maria Padian, it talks about a young man named Tom Bouchard. Tommy was born and raised in Anniston, Maine. And goes to a predominantly white school with very little diversity. Tommy plays Soccer for his school and has made himself a household name with his soccer team. Tommy also has a girlfriend named Cherisse, Cherisse is a shallow and whiny girl, who in addition, Is a narcissist who wants his undivided attention 24/7. Tommy has a best friend named Donnie, who is a loser willing to get a high off of anything. In the mist of negative energy, there is a spark of light when a young man named Saeed, a refugee from Somalia who is a prodigy at soccer. Saeed and his family are in the growing statistics of Muslim refugees settling down in Anniston, though not exactly welcomed there in the light of 9/11. To make matters worse, the mayor of Enniston had a letter published in the local paper asking Somalis to tell other Muslims to not come to Enniston. 

A moment in this story where someone was being judged for being different was when Tom said "No, it's just... you're small." (Padian 49) to a girl named Myla. Because Tom thought Myla was small for her age, he assumed that just because she was shorter, that there was not a possibility that she was a college student.