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Three Keys
by Kelly Yang
Last year I feel in love with the first book in this series which is Front Desk. I was super excited when I found out that Yang was putting out a second book. While this book is still told from Mia's perspective, it focuses a lot more on Lupe's experiences as an undocumented immigrant. Mia's experience mainly focus on dealing with a bigoted teacher who looks down on immigrants and actively treats her students of color worse than the students who are white.
There are two elements that I absolutely loved about this book. The first element was the friendship between Mia and Lupe. No matter what happened, Mia stood by Lupe's side. She refused to let Lupe get discouraged. As always, Yang addressed some of the biggest issues our country is facing in terms of immigrant. Most of the events in this book are actual events that occurred. This along with Yan's writing allows the reader to build a sense of empathy for all of the characters in the story. I loved that she made the decision to put an emphasis on all immigrants sticking together instead of trying to stand against each other or fight their battles alone. I also enjoyed that she illustrated the fact that POC can be prejudiced towards each other. Quite often people like to assume that just because someone is a POC that means that they exhibit horrible thoughts or actions towards other POCs. In the book we see a group of POC characters reinforce the stereotypes of other POC groups. Yang emphasizes to the reader that anyone is capable of bigotry just as anyone is capable of reform/change.
Honestly, I just love Yang's works and the way she takes time to educate readers of all ages. She doesn't shy away from tough topics, but she does so in a way that is appropriate for her target audience. Prior to reading this book I didn't know anything about Prop. 187. While Yang doesn't cover every aspect of this law, she does focus in on the educational piece where students were no longer allowed to attend school. They way this broke my heart was unreal. I didn't understand how grown ass adults were able to actively create a law that would harm children. In fact, a littel boy, Julio Cano, died because his family was too scared to seek medical attention. He was only 12 years old.
I continue to be amazed by Yang's gifts as a writer. I hope that more readers explore her stories and understand how important they are. She also conducts research and writes her novels in a way that really captures the experiences of others.
There are two elements that I absolutely loved about this book. The first element was the friendship between Mia and Lupe. No matter what happened, Mia stood by Lupe's side. She refused to let Lupe get discouraged. As always, Yang addressed some of the biggest issues our country is facing in terms of immigrant. Most of the events in this book are actual events that occurred. This along with Yan's writing allows the reader to build a sense of empathy for all of the characters in the story. I loved that she made the decision to put an emphasis on all immigrants sticking together instead of trying to stand against each other or fight their battles alone. I also enjoyed that she illustrated the fact that POC can be prejudiced towards each other. Quite often people like to assume that just because someone is a POC that means that they exhibit horrible thoughts or actions towards other POCs. In the book we see a group of POC characters reinforce the stereotypes of other POC groups. Yang emphasizes to the reader that anyone is capable of bigotry just as anyone is capable of reform/change.
Honestly, I just love Yang's works and the way she takes time to educate readers of all ages. She doesn't shy away from tough topics, but she does so in a way that is appropriate for her target audience. Prior to reading this book I didn't know anything about Prop. 187. While Yang doesn't cover every aspect of this law, she does focus in on the educational piece where students were no longer allowed to attend school. They way this broke my heart was unreal. I didn't understand how grown ass adults were able to actively create a law that would harm children. In fact, a littel boy, Julio Cano, died because his family was too scared to seek medical attention. He was only 12 years old.
I continue to be amazed by Yang's gifts as a writer. I hope that more readers explore her stories and understand how important they are. She also conducts research and writes her novels in a way that really captures the experiences of others.