Indivisible
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers · Paperback · August 23, 2022
This timely, moving debut novel follows a teen's efforts to keep his family together as his parents face deportation.
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- Who it’s for
- An intimate, urgent family story ties questions of identity to the fear of separation.
- Genres
- Immigration for Teens, YA LGBTQ+, Hispanic & Latino YA
- Published
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, August 23, 2022
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This timely, moving debut novel follows a teen's efforts to keep his family together as his parents face deportation. Mateo Garcia and his younger sister, Sophie, have been taught to fear one word for as long as they can remember: deportation. Over the past few years, however, the fear that their undocumented immigrant parents could be sent back to Mexico started to fade.
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Ma and Pa have been in the United States for so long, they have American-born children, and they're hard workers and good neighbors. When Mateo returns from school one day to find that his parents have been taken by ICE, he realizes that his family's worst nightmare has become a reality. With his parents' fate and his own future hanging in the balance, Mateo must figure out who he is and what he is capable of, all as he's forced to question what it means to be an American. Daniel Aleman's Indivisible is a remarkable story—both powerful in its explorations of immigration in America and deeply intimate in its portrait of a teen boy driven by his fierce, protective love for his sister and his parents.
Family Under Pressure
An intimate, urgent family story ties questions of identity to the fear of separation.
Come here for
- A teen’s fierce devotion to his family
- Questions of belonging and what it means to be American
Expect
- High emotional stakes, rooted in a sibling bond
- A sustained read about family, uncertainty, and belonging
Where it sits
| Immigration for Teens | 96% |
|---|---|
| Hispanic & Latino YA | 46% |
| YA LGBTQ+ | 40% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Coming of Age
- Diverse YA Fiction
- YA Stories About Parents
- YA LGBTQ+
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- Immigration for Teens
- Authors
- Daniel Aleman
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Published
- August 23, 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Coming of Age