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Cervantes, Angela.
GABY, LOST AND FOUND New York : Scholastic, 2013 IL 3-6, RL 4.1 ISBN 0545489458 |
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Can you imagine having your mother
deported out of the country due to the immigration laws of
the country where you and your father are legal American
citizens? That means you and dad get to stay, but
your mother has to leave. This is what happens to
eleven-year-old Gaby. She and her father remain in
the U.S.; her mother is deported to Honduras. How
would you feel? Gaby feels sad. She’s never
even been to Honduras! And her schoolmates…. do you
think all of them are kind and sympathetic to her
situation? Gaby feels lost, too. But life is a
combination of “sun” and “rain”. Gaby’s class begins
a long-term service project at an animal shelter, and this
is where things begin to change for her. Will there
be less “rain” and more “sun” for Gaby now? Will she
ever be reunited with her mother? Can Gaby endure it
all, regardless of what life brings her way?
(Prepared by: Rose Davis, Arden Elementary
School, South Carolina
Children's Books
Award Nominee, 2016) |
| SUBJECTS: Human-animal relationships --
Fiction. Volunteers -- Fiction. |
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