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English
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Santa Barbara, California. Raised by her strict Mexican grandma, Ri Ferǹndez has never been allowed to learn Spanish. She has always been pushed away from the neighborhood they call home and toward her best friend's world of mansions and country clubs in the hopes that it will bring Ri closer to achieving the "American Dream." Her mother disappeared when Ri was young, so when Ri finds an unanswered letter from her mom begging for a visit, Ri decides...
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Español
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"After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders."--
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English
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Almost sixteen-year-old city-transplant Aurora must adapt to life on an organic farm as she navigates an eventful summer when she falls in love, discovers that her mother has left for good, and watches her father take a bold stand in defense of the rights of undocumented Mexican farm workers.
8) Illegal
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Series
Disappeared ; 2
Language
English
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To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping to bring their pursuers to justice, only to discover that an even greater danger awaits them.
To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States. Now Sara is being held...
9) Frontera
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English
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"As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he's caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and, lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is ill-prepared for the unforgiving heat that is sure to...
10) Going home
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Although a Mexican family comes to the United States to work as farm laborers so that their children will have opportunities, the parents still consider Mexico their home.
11) Indivisible
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Mateo Garcia and his younger sister, Sophie, have been taught to fear one word for as long as they can remember: deportation. Ma and Pa have been in the United States for so long, they have American-born children, and they're hard workers and good neighbors. When Mateo returns from school one day to find that his parents have been taken by ICE, he realizes that his family's worst nightmare has become a reality. Now Mateo must figure out who he is...
12) Lupita Mañana
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
To help her poverty-stricken family, thirteen-year-old Lupita enters California as an illegal alien and starts to work while constantly on the watch for "la migra."
14) Still dreaming
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Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Multiple
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"A child dreams of a life without borders after he and and his parents are forced to leave their home during the Mexican Repatriation"--
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Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
[2023], c2022.
Language
Español
Description
En el primer libro infantil que describe el cap�itulo olvidado de la historia de los Estados Unidos conocido como la Repatriaci�on Mexicana, un ni�no y su familia dejan su amado hogar para evitar ser separados por el gobierno. Ante la perspectiva de ser separados, un ni�no y su familia toman la dif�icil decisi�on de dejar su hogar y emprender un viaje lleno de incertidumbre. En el camino, se encuentran con otras personas como ellos. Familias...
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