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Nowhere Boy Slide Project

ELA project on the book Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh.
Max
Max is a 13-year old boy. He is taken to Brussels, France, by his parents and is (unwillingly) enrolled in a French school, the “School of Happiness”. At first, Max takes to calling it the “School of Misery” instead, because everyone speaks almost only French and Max barely knows any French.
Ahmed
Ahmed is very kind and feels guilty from stealing even the most meager amounts from Max’s house, “repaying” Max’s family by tending to the garden; his work does not go unnoticed, and soon, Max finds him. However, Ahmed doesn’t have the traits Max is led to believe his race possesses. Instead, Ahmed is nice, kind, honest, and friendly.
Beginning of the book
      Nowhere boy is an engrossing book with the perspectives of two boys, Ahmed and Max.
      Ahmed is a kind refugee and Max has been dragged off to Brussels by his parents because
      they are in search for a "better" place for Max. In Chapter 1, Ahmed's dad supposedly drowns and dies.
      Ahmed takes transportation via a smuggler, but this smuggler wanted more money than Ahmed
      had and tried to trap him in the car. However, Ahmed was able to escape and
      he bolted inside the first house he could find. This house happens to be the house Max, his parents, 
      and his sister are living in. Ahmed makes the cellar his home and tries to only steal
      what he absolutely needs, taking very little food from the kitchen. Almost as repayment,
      Ahmed tends to the the garden, and his work does not go unnoticed.
Max is very brave because he finds him and doesn't report him, he also is a nice kid
because he didn't discriminate.
Middle
In the middle of the book, Max gives food and helps Ahmed by giving him supplies.
      Farah is a girl who is Muslim and agreed to help with Max's plan.
      Oscar is a boy who bullied Max but eventually became his friend because Max punched him and they
      stopped getting so heated.
      Farah agrees to help Max out by calling as a "mom" of Ahmed and Oscar would make a passport,
      they did this because Ahmed would need a passport to go to school and Max was determined
      to help him.
      Farah does a phone call and Oscar prints the passport.
      They manage to get Ahmed in school, he also gets his own documentation.
End
Several problems arise in the end
In the end, Ahmed flees because the teacher found Ahmed suspicious.
    Max in a attempt to find Ahmed, found a person close to Ahmed and Max found that Ahmed's dad
    was actually alive.
    Max finds Ahmed in a park and they go on a train to Hungary to find his dad as that was the location given.
    They get to Hungary but the police stop them and they have to get on a refugee service car
    but Ahmed got taken in.
    Ahmed finds his dad and reunites, better yet they are allowed to go out of the center 
    and get to America (Washington DC) which is where Max lives.