Bound To Stay Bound

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 Leavers : a novel
 Author: Ko, Lisa

 Publisher:  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (2018)

 Classification: Fiction
 Physical Description: 350 p,  21 cm

 BTSB No: 527587 ISBN: 9781616208042
 Ages: 14-18 Grades: 9-12

 Subjects:
 Children of undocumented immigrants -- Fiction
 Mother-son relationship -- Fiction
 Undocumented immigrants -- Fiction
 Deportation -- Fiction
 Self-realization -- Fiction

Price: $13.90

Summary:
One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been taken away.

Reading Counts Information:
   Interest Level: 9-12
   Reading Level: 5.60
   Points: 27.0   Quiz: 70939



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