Answer: B. His mom wants to be closer to family.
Explanation:
In this story, Marco and his mother, Teresa, move to Florida so Teresa can be with her mother, Lita, who had just lot her husband, Marco's grandfather. Marco's mother thought this the right thing to do because she did not want her mother to be all alone at such a difficult time.
The pair originally lived in Detroit where Marco has a lot of friends as well as being active in the school hockey team.
Before he turned into an insect, Gregor's biggest priority in life was to work hard and pay off his family's debt.
One strategy you can use to determine the meanings of unknown words and phrases is to look at the context clues. Context clues might be something like a picture, words or phrases you already know, using what you know about the text already.
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