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2) The leavers
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"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...
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Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture...
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Seventeen Fiction from Harlequin Teen
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[2016]
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Jasmine de los Santos has always done what's expected of her. She's studied hard, made her Filipino immigrant parents proud, and is ready to reap the rewards in the form of a full college scholarship to the school of her dreams. And then everything shatters. Her parents are forced to reveal the truth: their visas expired years ago. Her entire family is illegal. That means no scholarships, maybe no college at all, and the very real threat of deportation....
5) Indivisible
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Little, Brown and Company
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[2021]
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"Mateo Garcia and his younger sister, Sophie, have been taught to fear one word for as long as they can remember: deportation. The worry that their undocumented immigrant parents could be sent back to Mexico always lingered in the back of their minds, even though Ma and Pa have been in the United States for a long time, they have American-born children, and they're hard workers and good neighbors. When Mateo returns from school one day to find that...
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