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Part I (Chapters 1 - 11)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Yang, Kelly. Front Desk. Arthur A. Levine Books, New York, 2018.

• This book was written from the first-person point of view and in the past tense.

• In Chapter 1, Mia Tang, a young girl going into the fifth grade, is an immigrant from China who came to America several years ago with her mother and father.

• Mia's parents told her America was amazing, and they would be free there, and they could eat all the hamburgers they wanted.

• Mia noted that so far, the only thing they had done was have hamburgers, and she was holding out hope for all the rest.

• Mia's mother had a habit of "taking a picture" at nice moments - that is, pretending to take a picture by framing something with her hands - because the family does...

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