9780374305734-0374305730-The Other Side: Stories of Central American Teen Refugees Who Dream of Crossing the Border

The Other Side: Stories of Central American Teen Refugees Who Dream of Crossing the Border

ISBN-13: 9780374305734
ISBN-10: 0374305730
Author: Juan Pablo Villalobos
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Format: Hardcover 160 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780374305734
ISBN-10: 0374305730
Author: Juan Pablo Villalobos
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Format: Hardcover 160 pages

Summary

The Other Side: Stories of Central American Teen Refugees Who Dream of Crossing the Border (ISBN-13: 9780374305734 and ISBN-10: 0374305730), written by authors Juan Pablo Villalobos, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Other Side: Stories of Central American Teen Refugees Who Dream of Crossing the Border (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.36.

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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 survival―including 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 waters―offer 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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