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The other side : stories of Central American teen refugees who dream of crossing the border
Title:
The other side : stories of Central American teen refugees who dream of crossing the border
ISBN:
9780374305734
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
147 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Where are your kids? -- Now I'm going to sleep for a bit -- The other side means the other side -- There are snakes out there -- It was like cotton, but when I touched it, it was just ice -- I'd rather die trying to get out -- He and I got along really well -- How we were going to get there -- La Cabuya -- Before and after -- To this day -- Acknowledgments -- About the refugees.
Reading Level:
810 L Lexile
Summary:
Award-winning Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos explores illegal immigration with this emotionally raw and timely nonfiction book about ten Central American teens and their journeys to the United States. You can't really tell what time it is when you're in the freezer. Every year, thousands of migrant children and teens cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The journey is treacherous and sometimes deadly, but worth the risk for migrants who are escaping gang violence and poverty in their home countries. And for those refugees who do succeed? They face an immigration process that is as winding and multi-tiered as the journey that brought them here. In this book, award-winning Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos strings together the diverse experiences of eleven real migrant teenagers, offering readers a beginning road map to issues facing the region. These timely accounts of courage, sacrifice, and survivalincluding two fourteen-year-old girls forming a tenuous friendship as they wait in a frigid holding cell, a boy in Chicago beginning to craft his future while piecing together his past in El Salvador, and cousins learning to lift each other up through angry watersoffer a rare and invaluable window into the U.S.Central American refugee crisis. In turns optimistic and heartbreaking, The Other Side balances the boundless hope at the center of immigration with the weight of its risks and repercussions. Here is a necessary read for young people on both sides of the issue.
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