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My Favorite Chaperone Short Story

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In the short story, My Favorite Chaperone, by Jean Davies Okimoto, the main character Maya wants to attend the Spring Fling, but she is worried that her parents won’t sign her permission slip. Maya is a ninth grader from Kazakhstan who moved to America, whose parents are still accustomed to the Kazakhstan culture. In the beginning, During class, Maya gets a call to the office and learns that her brother Nurzhan got in a fight at school so she needs to translate the principles words to her father and back again. One time during a gymnastics meet she was hanging with her friends and a couple boys, and her father saw her being carried and lifted by a guy she likes and her dad goes into a rage of fury. Maya gets punished by her parents, and they
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