Documents the journey of a Honduran teen who braved hardship and peril to reunite with his mother after she was forced to leave him behind and seek migratory work in the United States.
To write about Olga, I spoke with migrants living at her Shelter of Jesus the Good Shepherd, including Transito Encarnacit'm Martines Hernandez, Fausto MejiIIas Guerrero, Leti Isabela Mejia Yanes, Hugo Tambris Siop, Edwin Bertotty ...
Nazario, journalist for the Los Angeles Times, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for this story in the category of feature writing.
Sixteen-year-old Enrique embarks on a journey to find his mother, who eleven years earlier had illegally entered the United States hoping to find work and make enough money to send home to her starving family in Honduras.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine.
Fifteen-year-old Drew "True" Robinson loves being the best point-guard prospect on his high-school basketball team, but learns the consequences of fame through a former player, as well as through the man who expects to be his manager when ...
A touching, hilarious “tour de force of imagination and empathy” (Booklist, starred review) from John Corey Whaley, author of the Printz and Morris Award–winning Where Things Come Back.
The first new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries-from the first New World colonies to the first decade of the new millennium.
As renowned historian Roger Daniels shows in this brilliant new work, America's inconsistent, often illogical, and always cumbersome immigration policy has profoundly affected our recent past.
Probing the experiences of migrant parents, children in Mexico, and their caregivers, Joanna Dreby offers an up-close and personal account of the lives of families divided by borders.