Ko, Lisa, <br/><br/>
The leavers / 
a novel by Lisa Ko. 
 - First edition. 
 - 400 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> "One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. <br/>With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been taken away--and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of her past"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780349700526 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Children of illegal aliens--Fiction.<br/>Mothers and sons--Fiction.<br/>Illegal aliens--Fiction.<br/>Deportation--Fiction.<br/>Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813 KO