Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"When Javier Zamora was nine, he traveled unaccompanied from El Salvador to the United States to reunite with his parents. This is his memoir of that dangerous journey, a nine-week odyssey that nearly ended in calamity on multiple occasions. It's a miracle that Javier survived the crossing and a miracle that he has the talent to now tell his story so masterfully. While Solito is Javier's story, it's also the story of millions of others who have risked...
Author
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. Without her, he became lonely and troubled....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cornejo Villavicencio explores the lives of the undocumented, including her own. She finds the singular, effervescent characters across the nation often reduced in the media to political pawns or nameless laborers. The stories she tells are not deferential or naively inspirational but show the love, magic, heartbreak, insanity, and vulgarity that infuse the day-to-day lives of her subjects.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While his father works two jobs, seventh-grader Efrén Nava must take care of his twin siblings, kindergartners Max and Mia, after their mother is deported to Mexico. Includes glossary of Spanish words.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The journalist and immigration-rights activist relates how he was sent from the Philippines to the U.S. as a child, his discovery of his undocumented status as a teenager, and his decision to reveal his immigration status publicly in 2011.
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In a gripping memoir, the author, a vice president at Goldman Sachs, a rare Hispanic woman in a sea of suits and ties hiding a secret, tells her personal story of separation, grief and ultimate redemption, changing the perception of what it means to be an undocumented immigrant.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From a mother whose children were taken from her at the U.S. border by the American government in 2018 and another mother who helped reunite the family, a crucial, searing story about the immigration odyssey, family separation and reunification, and the power of individuals to band together to overcome even the most cruel and unjust circumstances.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request