Francisco
At age 15, Francisco arrives in this California city.
What is Watsonville?
This city is where Enzo lives with his parents at the start of the novel.
What is Philadelphia?
This state is where Chris lives with his parents.
What is Colorado?
Emil's chapters begin in this California city in 1965.
What is Stockton?
Betsy's Age
What is 21 years old?
Francisco meets this fellow Filipino immigrant while being in the President Jackson boat.
Who is Lorenzo Tolentino?
Enzo describes his anxiety as this type of insect nest.
What is a hornet's nest?
Chris's classmates mistakenly call him by this last name.
What is Gonzalez?
Emil works after school at this family business.
What is the Subic Bay Cafe?
This type of noun names an idea, feeling, quality, or concept that cannot be seen or touched.
What is an abstract noun?
Mang Carlos tells Francisco he should be doing this instead of working in the fields.
What is going to school?
This Filipino phrase, the title of Chapter 2, means "a debt from within."
What is Utang na Loob?
Chris earns all A's during summer school hoping his father will let him do this.
What is play football?
Emil rejects an invitation to join this school organization.
What is the Filipino Students Union?
Words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.
What are homophones?
Francisco realizes workers are being cheated when these are deducted from their pay.
What are the costs of supplies like boots, gloves, hats, and cots?
Lolo Emil insists Enzo call him by this title instead of "Lolo."
What is Grandpa?
hris's history assignment asks him to research this topic, but he struggles because he knows so little.
What is his family ancestry (or family history)?
Emil believes immigrants should do this after coming to America.
What is become "American" (or assimilate)?
These words look and sound identical.
What are homonyms?
Pablo convinces Francisco that the labor problem affects not only Filipino workers but this larger group.
Who are all labor workers?
Name two reasons Enzo worries during the opening chapters.
What are COVID-19, Lolo Emil moving in, giving up his room, or his anxiety? (Any two)
nstead of telling his father "I'm not quitting," Chris says these two words.
What is "Okay, Dad"?
Francisco tells the community that one person's children are whose responsibility?
What is everyone's?
The words tear (to rip) and tear (from your eye) are examples of these.
What are homographs?