Indivisible -- Daniel Aleman

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. 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, even 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 parents and his sister.

Author: Daniel Aleman
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 05/04/2021
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780759556058
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.2
Point Value: 14
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 514313 / Indivisible


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 03/01/2021 pg. 104
Booklist 03/15/2021 pg. 51
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2021
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 05/01/2021
Publishers Weekly 09/27/2021

About the Author
Daniel Aleman was born and raised in Mexico City. A graduate of McGill University, he currently lives in Toronto. Indivisible is his first novel.