Noticing Sentences

Immigration p109-- WWII "Your grandparents worked really hard to build a life in this country," Mom said. "But they were also very proud of where they came from." p111 Identity "You always look down on stuff I like doing because I'm not being a senorita or not appreciating my culture. It's hard for me to figure out how to be me when you're always telling me it's wrong. I hate that you're always disappointed in me." p304 "I like to think of us as more like patchwork quilts," Mrs. Hidalgo said. "Some pieces are prettier than others. Some pieces match and some don't. But if you remove a square, you're just left with an incomplete quilt, and who wants that? All our pieces are equally important if they make us whole. even the weird ones." p309

Irony They were singing Christian songs. I had grown up singing some of those songs in church, and I wondered why murderers would be singing them. p5 Life Lesson She would shush me. "It doesn't matter if he smells. He's still a person. A person is a person, no matter what," she said. "You must do what you can to help people. What you do comes back around to you." p34 "Beauty is in your head, not on your body," Dad would say. p141 It's exhausting when you think that you're not entitled to your emotions. p272 For genocide unit description of school p46-47 They [parents] were determined to raise us peacefully, even though we were growing up in a conflict zone. They taught us tolerance and forgiveness. I didn't understand why the Congolese kids were mean to us. I wanted to say to them, "Don't you have parents who teach you respect?" p46-47 an attack p63-65 another attack p73 Interhamwe p86 watching Hote...

Immigration great simple explanation for kids- p29 being called an alien- kid perspective-- p32 Language accent/ speech instruction- p36 Some of them are not that great, but I love that she talks to me as if I'm a good writer. p136 Sadness dad and paying for things- p155 Love it Like usual, Jessica doesn't seem nervous at all, but I realize that's not always good. Maybe it's good sometimes to be nervous about things because you'll work harder at them. p194