"'What side do you come from?' A boy thinks he knows what to expect when he and his mother set out on a road trip to visit his sister. After all, he's traveled this way before. But then their trip is interrupted at the border. 'Citizenship?' the guard asks. 'Blackfoot,' the boy's mother answers. And just like that, mother and son are plunged into a limbo between two countries that refuse to recognize them for who they really are. To make their way,...

Sixth-graders Sara, a Pakistani American, and Elizabeth, a Jewish girl, connect in an after school cooking club and bond over food and their mothers' struggles to become United States citizens.