3. Group C--cshockley25

In my story “Indivisible” by Daniel Aleman, there is a boy and a young girl that start the book by living with their family. Their mother and father own a corner store, and that is their source of income. Both of Mateo’s (the older brother) parents came from Mexico, while he and his sister Sophie, were born in the United States. This makes both of them American citizens but not their parents. One day when Mateo gets back from school his parents are not there and his sister is at a friend's house. Mateo later finds out both of his parents have been taken by ICE, and deported. Mateo goes to get his sister and brings her to their house and explains what has happened. So far in the rest of the story, it is about the struggles that they are both facing without parents, to show them what to do. While the family did not have a problem getting into the United States they are having a problem being able to stay. they have been in the U.S for almost 17 years and I.C.E caught up with them and took them to detention facilities until their court dates. they have yet to solve this problem but I expect them to after the final chapters. 

in my book Girl In Translation by Jean kwok. a girl named Kimberly originally from Hong Kong talks about how she moved all the way to New York when she was 11 years old. she moved with her mother who she calls Ma. Ma works in a factory so Ma and Kimberly can have a stable living in an apartment that isn't the best quality but it works. Kimberly struggles with "adapting" to her new environment within school, hanging out with other people in her community and being treated different because she is being classified as different. When she first got there I guess you could say that people were careful around Kimberly because she was new, but once she lived in New York for longer she started developing more friendships and she even had a relationship with a guy named Matt that she met in the factory. Kimberly and Matt became very good friends in a short about of time, once they got older they started dating but then Kimberly got a job offer in Austin, Texas and Matt decided not to leave with Kimberly, but decided to stay with his mom which led them to break up and he got with a girl named Brittany.

In My book “ The Leavers” By Lisa Ko is about a boy named Deming Guo and his immigrant mother named Polly Guo from China.  Deming and his mother lived in a shared apartment with Polly’s boyfriend Leon and his sister Vivian  who has  a boy named Michael Demings age.Polly works at a nail salon in New York to provide money but later found a Job in Florida and needed to move down for work but Deming did not want to leave and wanted to stay with Michael. One day Polly disappeared and never came back after work.Since Polly left and Leon went to work in China, Vivian could not afford to have Michael and Deming, so she gave Deming up for adoption and got adopted by a white family and changed his name to Daniel Wilkinson and moved upstate New York with his new family around the age of 10. Moving forward about 10 years later Deming is now 21 and he still doesn’t know where his mother had gone and haven’t had contact with her and with Michael since he had left. Michael had found his contact through email and wanted to catch up with him,  So he responded and met up with Michael and later with Vivian and Leon. When reuniting back with Leon, Leon gave out Polly’s number to Deming to get in contact with his mother. After getting her contact information he calls her but no one answers. In the second part of my book it leans more towards Polly’s POV. Since leaving the U.S. and being deported back to China she is now an English teacher and  has Never mentioned to anyone that she has a son, not even to her husband. Since finding out where his mom lives In the last part of my book Deming flies out to Fuzhou, China where his mom is now living to go and visit her while on a tourist visa for three months.Before he visits his mother, he goes to Leon's house who is now married and has a daughter. Leon goes on and helps Deming to find his mother. Polly tells him the information of where she lives but not the exact location of the apartment. Once they meet up she finally tells him what happened to her and what they did to her  After being in China for a couple of months, Deming goes back and reunites with his adoptive family for the holidays. 

In my book Polly is an immigrant who is from China  and gives birth to her son Deming in America. When immigrating to America Polly is 19 and pregnant, she did tell her boyfriend and wanted to do abortion. Since she could not do abortion in China she decides to immigrate to New York. Once she is in New York she could not do abortion since she is in her third trimester of her pregnancy. To make money she works at a nail salon for 6 years but get taken away at work and deported back to China.