Josef's younger sister.

Showing embarrassment from shame or a lack of self-confidence

To become weak or feeble; to lose strength

"When she got to her Papi, he was balled up on the ground and the policeman was
beating him with his nightstick."

Their house got ransacked by Nazi soldiers.

Plays the trumpet for money.

The remains of something that has been destroyed.

Thin and bony.

"And then the whole country seemed to go crazy all at once. Tens of thousands of people poured into the streets, demanding the release of political prisoners and more freedom for everyone. Within a month,
Assad had turned his tanks and soldiers and bombers on the protestors—on his own people—and ever since then, all Mahmoud and Waleed and anyone else in Syria had known was war."

Drifted from their friend, who later died in an airstrike.

Lost his best friend in an airstrike. Believes it is better to be invisible and not have friends at all.

To call forth.

A stroll or a walk; an area used for walking.

"His breath came quick and deep, and his hands clenched into fists. 'I should do something,' he whispered. But knew better."

They climb onto a car to find their father.

Lives next door to Isabel. Their older brother stopped a cop from hitting Isabel.

Lower in rank, status, or quality.

Characterized by a marked lack of movement, activity, or expression.

"The kitten wasn’t too different from her, Isabel realized: thin, hungry, and in need of a bath.....Without Russia’s gas, they couldn’t run the tractors to change the fields over to food, and without the extra food, the Cuban people began to starve."

Fidel Castro is the leader of their country.

Two years younger than Mahmoud. Has short black hair and big ears.

Overly suspicious.

Anger as a result of something unjust.

"Klaus had joined the Hitler Youth not because he wanted to, but because German boys - and their families - were shamed and mistreated if they didn't."

Their sibling walks with them to school, and is very quiet, never showing emotions.