his mother Quotes

Alem is now on his own, in the hands of the social services and the Refugee Council. He lives from letter to letter, waiting to hear from his father, and in particular about his mother, who has now gone missing... A powerful, gripping new novel.

“After his mother left home, Haroun found that he couldn’t keep his mind on anything for very long, or, to be precise, for more than eleven minutes at a time. Rashid took him to a movie to cheer him up, but after exactly eleven minutes Haroun’s attention wandered, and when the film ended he had no idea how it all turned out, and had to ask Rashid if the good guys won in the end.”

Having crossed the Rio Grande into Texas with his mother in search of a new life, Joaquín receives help and friendship from Prietita a brave young Mexican American girl.

But what can she do to protect Joaquín and his mother from the Border Patrol as the van cruises slowly up the street toward their hiding place?

When Cass and his mother move to the upper floor in an old house, a great curiosity develops about Mr. Magnus, who lives on the ground floor.

His mother forces him to put on a pretty pink frock with fiddly shell buttons, and then he has to go to school.

“Which arises from feeling abandoned, Grover realizes, along with recognition that his mother “would have changed” and sought to avert it. ”

“He could pick apple blossoms and take them to his mother. But he could not share snowflakes because he could not save them. Willie’s mother was his teacher until he was fourteen years old.”