Summary

Deja notices the cafeteria is busy with kids opening their cool lunchboxes or eating a nice spaghetti lunch. She has no money to pay for lunch and she did not take a lunch either. While her stomach makes a hungry rumble, Deja looks around the hallway. She expects her class' summer vacation essays will be hung on the walls. She plans to leave her page blank because she had no summer vacation. She also sees a world map bulletin board. Students pin their place of origin on the map and stretch yarn from it to the location of their school, Brooklyn Collective Elementary. Sabeen and Ben join Deja in the hall.

Sabeen shows that her string is from Turkey to Brooklyn. She was not born in Turkey, but her grandparents were born there. Ben is from Arizona, so Sabeen helps him put in...